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complimentary letter, stating how heartily he en- 

 dorsed my method, etc. At Winchester, N. C, I took 

 two wild and vicious horses up three flights of stairs, 

 giving an exhibition with them and safely bringing 

 them down again after the display closed. The owner 

 felt sure that I would be obliged to lower them by 

 rope and tackle; in fact, he was on the hunt for ropes 

 and help. But, on his return, was surprised at finding 

 the horses safely on terra finna. 



After leaving Raleigh, I met with poor compensa- 

 tion for my services. Arriving in Charleston, S. C, 

 with not money enough to pay my fare in the bus 

 from the depot to Charleston Hotel, I said to the be- 

 wildered fare-taker, " Why! I am to ride back with 

 you, and will pay then." At the hotel, being shown to 

 an indifferent room, I protested and was given the 

 "bridal chamber," with which I was satisfied. At 

 ten o'clock the next forenoon I gave an exhibition, 

 and returned to my " bridal chamber" and four-doUar- 

 a-day hotel with one hundred and sixty dollars in my 

 pocket, and having a load of anxiety taken off my 

 shoulders thereby. But here, as well as elsewhere in 

 tlie South, I found the people more interested in rais- 

 ing a crop than in the question of how to educate 

 horses. But I must say, however, that I never was 

 better treated or more hospitably received than by the 

 Southerners. I have always found a friend when in 

 need, and often have very willingly accepted a "T. D." 

 pipe in place of a fine cigar. The colored people I 

 found always very much interested in my lessons and 

 exhibitions, although they considered and believed 

 me endowed with the evil-eye by seeing me exercise 

 such power over the animals with my eye alone. 

 Wliile warning each other with a "Take care — he's a 

 wizard!" they little dreamed that drawing a horse to 



