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tlie owner, who was present, that he was a very bad 

 horse, and there was great danger in handling him — 

 not danger only to the animal, but to myself; but if 

 he would take the risk on the horse, I would on my- 

 self. His manly reply was, "Go ahead." It was 

 with great difficulty I succeeded in throwing him by 

 the use of my double safety rope, and after getting him 

 down, had him, as I supposed, thoroughly secured; 

 when, bursting apart the strong surcingle I had around 

 him, and one of the straps around his foot, he sprang 

 at once to his feet, fairly elated at his supposed vic- 

 tory. Going to work in a different way, I again laid 

 him down, and, fairly tying his feet to his body, I 

 subjected him to my tin-pan, whip, bells, drum, and 

 pistol test, afterwards driving him successfully, not, 

 however, before he had kicked severely one of my 

 assistants. This animal subsequently, and before the 

 audience, had shoes placed on his hind feet for the 

 first time in his life. Horseshoers came from all 

 parts of the city to see what they claimed to be an 

 impossibility. 



While here one man asserted that he had used my 

 Eureka bridle twenty years ago. I offered him, be- 

 fore my audience, one dollar if he would come into 

 the ring and put it on a horse. He hesitated; I in- 

 creased the offer to five, when he placed what he called 

 my bridle upon an animal. I then had another horse 

 brought in to the ring and had one of my assistants put 

 my Eureka on him. Calling upon a gentleman who 

 happened to be present, and who had seen me use 

 this bridle nearly ten years ago at Philadelphia, with- 

 out looking at either bridle myself, to say which of 

 the two was mine, he quickly decided. There was 

 really no resemblance between the two. The boaster, 



