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Title: How to handle and educate vicious horses
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Gleason, Oscar R. (Oscar Rudolph), 1856-
Subjects: Horses Dogs
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Co.
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rge number of aunts andcousins, and other relations, I had, and in truth al-most forgotten, for during the ten years of my hardbut successful struggle I had not been under the pa-ternal roof once. It is with great pleasure I state thatI have the names of a host of my friends who presentedme while in Boston with a most beautiful and valua-ble gold Howard watch, English riding whip, etc. ADVENT AND SUCCESS IN NEW YORK. My opening in New York had been fully announcedin the daily papers by my Managers, Messrs Lovecraftand Burnham, who had secured for the opening nightat Cosmopolitan Hall, corner 41st Street and Broad-way, the man-eating stallion Rysdyk of Montreal,Canada, which had killed his groom in the stall onApril nth, besides biting two others and his owner,\\\ H. Kimball. This horse had been shipped by ex-press from Montreal on Friday, the 16th, arriving inNew York on Sunday, the iSth. I gave the stallionhis fi™t lesson on Monday evening before a crowded 63 HOW TO EDUCATE HORSES.
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LIFE SKETCH. 69 house, and on Tuesday I put him into an enclosuretwenty-four feet square, without a strap or rope onhim. The house was crowded to suffocation, thedoors being closed at 8.15. When I entered the en-closure with the stallion, you could have heard a pindrop, the owner saying that no man would evercome out alive that went into such a place withRysdyk. In twenty-three minutes I put a halter onhim and led him out of the enclosure, though not with-out twro very narrow escapes—he having bitten me onthe arm and also on the left side of my chest, takingout quite a piece of flesh and the wound bleedingquite freely. The next night I made the stallion do afew tricks before the audience, such as standing on abox with one fore-foot and holding the other up andputting it down at the word of command; also tiltingon a plank raised twro and a half feet from the ground.I next made him follow a stranger round the arenalike a dog. On Thursday afternoon I drove him onthe Boulevard (it havin

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