Bringing: Letters. 



"Finally I got a piece of tin with the letter painted on it. It took 

 months and months, a half year, before I was satisfied that he would 

 know the letter A when he would see it. When 1 had this done I 

 thought that if Jim could only be made to bring the card to mc I 

 would have just what I wanted. I at once began to train him for this 

 end. I began with a piece of apple in a handkerchief. 1 would let 

 him get the end in his jaw and then I would try to draw it away from 

 him. Finally I would have a piece of apple in my hand, and hold out 

 the handkerchief to him, and then give him the apple. He learned that 

 he was being rewai^ded, and I soon had him tugging at the card and 

 then bringing it to me. Then I thought that I had my fortune made, 

 when one day I happened to think if the horse knew A when he saw 

 it he could be taught the entire alphabet, and in this I was right. 



Taught to Say Yes. 



"^[y wife used to tell mc to let the horse alone and come out of 

 the stable, for she knew that I would go crazy over Jim, but it came 

 around so that she got very fond of Jim, and was soon very much 

 attached to him. One day she happened to go into the stable while 

 eating an apple, and she said, 'Jin\, do you want a piece of apple?' He 

 bowed his head up and down. The next thing I heard was my wife 

 calling out. "Doctor, doctor, the horse can say yes.' I went in, but 

 Jim would not say it to me. I went out and watched and saw him do 

 it for mj- wife. From that day she fell in love with him, and would 

 always reward him with apples or sugar whenever he would do what 

 she asked of him. The way Jim learned to open and close the desk 

 drawers was this: I had put some apples in a drawer that had a string 

 attached to it. Later on I returned and all the apples were gone. I 

 suspected some boys that were about the place, and when I put some 

 more apples in the drawer they, too, disappeared, and then I watched 

 and soon found that Jim was stealing my apples. He had been watch- 

 ing me, and soon began imitating me. 



Figuring. 



"From that time on my work was comparatively easy. I taught him 

 to count, and then to figure. This took years, but I kept at it — day 

 after day — until now he knows up to thirty. Jim likes writing and 

 quickly learns names printed on card board. I believe he knows every 

 word I say to him, and sometimes it seems to me all I've got to do 

 is to think a thing and he knows it. Yes, some say it's hypnotism and 

 that kind of thing — but I don't know anything about that, but I do 

 know Jim knows and does what I ask him to do. It was just kind- 

 ness, mere kindness, and no more. Now I am spending all my time 

 teaching him the places and quotations where the horse is mentioned 

 in the Bible, for horses were mighty prominent animals then. The 

 Prophets had visions of them. John says he looked up and beheld a 

 white horse in heaven, and what Jim wants to know is, if there arc 

 white horses in heaven, why can't a good bay horse go there also? 



