He Began Early. 



"I began to teach him when he was one year old. First, I taught 

 him to he down and roll, and soon after that to give symptoms of bots 

 and colic, because I was then in the medicine business. Next he 

 learned to make-believe he was lame and act as though he were suffer- 

 ing with different kinds of troubles, the general symptoms of which he 

 would reproduce. I had him learn to bring me different things and 

 then to learn different colors. The hardest thing I had to teach him 

 was to learn how to eat sugar. I tried every way, and had it tied to 

 the bridle, but Jim would always spit it out. One day I saw him eat- 

 ing apples in the orchard, and I got the idea that if I put a piece of 

 sugar in an apple he would eat it. I fixed an apple and then watched 

 Jim. When he picked it up and munched it I thought he would go 

 crazy with satisfaction and delight. I at once tried the sugar alone, but 

 it was no use. He had taken a grudge against raw sugar, although he 

 would take it with an apple coating. I worked with him for six months 

 before I succeeded. I had to cover the apple with sugar and he would 

 eat both with great relish. I gradually reduced the quantity of apple 

 over the sugar, and then he would have a piece of apple laid over a 

 piece of sugar in my hand, and when he would reach for the apple he 

 would get the sugar. In this way he soon learned that sugar was 

 sugar and apple was apple. 



FILING LETTERS. 



The Learning: of the Alphabet. 



"The learning of the alphabet was the work that required the most 

 patience. I had to keep at it all the time for years. When I began I 

 had in my mind only to teach Jim to pick out the letter A. I got some 

 cards with the letter A on it, and then put sugar on the card. This 

 was, of course, after Jim had grown to have a passion for sugar, which 

 he has never lost. I would say to him, 'A, A, A,' and while I was 

 doing this I would let nobody in the stable, and I would keep him away 

 from other horses. I said 'A' a good many times, and Jim used up 

 many cards, as he would lick the cards so much. 



