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about half-an-hour, during which little or no bustle wa« 
heard, the signal was made ; and after opening the door, 
the horse was seen lying down, and the man by his side, 
playing familiarly with him like a child with a puppy-dog. 
From that time he was found perfectly willing to submit to 
discipline, however repugnant to his nature before. Some 
saw his skill tried on a horse which could never before be 
brought to stand for a smith to shoe him. The day after 
Sullivan’s half-hour lecture, I went, not without some incre¬ 
dulity, to the smith’s shop, with many other curious spec¬ 
tators, where we were eye-witnesses of the complete success 
of his art. This too had been a troop-horse, and it was 
supposed, not without reason, that after regimental dis¬ 
cipline had failed, no other would be found availing. I 
observed that the animal seemed afraid whenever Sullivan 
spoke or looked at him. How that extraordinary ascendancy 
could have been obtained, it is difficult to conjecture. In 
common cases, this mysterious preparation was unnecessary. 
He seemed to possess an instinctive power of inspiring awe, 
the result, perhaps, of natural intrepidity, in which I believe 
a great part of his art consisted, though the circumstance of 
the tete-a-tete shows that upon particular occasions some¬ 
thing more must have been added to it. A faculty like 
this would, in other hands, have made a fortune, and great 
offers have been made to him for the exercise of his art 
abroad; but hunting, and attachment to his native soil, 
were his ruling passions. He lived at home in the style 
most agreeable to his disposition, and nothing could induce 
him to quit Dunhallow and the fox-hounds.” Among the 
manv striking performances in this way, none was more 
remarkable than his taming the celebrated racer King 
Pippin, one of the most ferocious horses that ever lived. 
Such was his furious temper, that to saddle and bridle him 
