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cate as a fine violin. I will repeat — I had no fixed plan, no 

 set method of other men to go by. 



"After Lou was sold to Mr. Billings, she was turned over 

 to Mr. Chas. Tanner and though he got along very nicely 

 with her, after he had driven her about thirty days, he came 

 to me and remarked that he was not quite satisfied with her 

 and that I could have her to train if I wanted her. I asked 

 him when I could have her and his reply was, 'right away'. 

 I went with him to Mr. Billings' stable and took charge of 

 the mare and Tommy Waugh, her caretaker, as nice a little 

 gentleman and as nice a little mare as any man ever had 

 under his direction. 



"Quite naturally, during her absence from my stable 

 Lou almost forgot the terms of the old understanding be- 

 tween us but I jogged her a couple of days and we restored 

 the old agreement. Deciding to work her on the third day 

 after she came back to me, I asked Mr. Tanner to drive the 

 runner and I would let her go a fraction better than 2:10 if 

 he would rate the runner every quarter in 32l^. Nobody 

 could do it better than he and he complied with my request 

 to the very fraction and the mare, brushing the last fifty 

 yards, trotted the mile in 2:09^, it being understood that I 

 w^as to beat the runner out a little bit. This performance 

 rather surprised everybody except me and pleased all friends 

 of Mr. Billings. 



"After that mile I jogged her a few days and let Tommy 

 Waugh ride her about the grounds with nothing on her but 

 the halter. I might say that from that day on she seldom 

 had harness on more than three or four days a week. The 

 days she was not harnessed Tommy would take her out to 

 halter, ride her three or four miles and let her visit round. 

 It was a quiet way to execise her, because she was but a 

 bundle of nerves while in harness. On the other hand she 

 was the meekest, quietest, kindest and most gentle little mare 

 in the world, almost a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in her dual 

 personality. When I put harness on her she would fret and 

 sweat and waste away. When I did work her I did not use 

 the regular methods in scraping her out, did not use a 

 scraper — it was too harsh. Instead I got Tommy a big, soft 



