PROFESSOR SAMPLE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10229, 23 June 1883, Page 3

PROFESSOR SAMPLE.

The American hoise .turner, Professor Sample, held his .second class for inBtructfonyesterdayin Mr F. E. Jackson's sale yards, in the presence of about forty highly interested spectatois. Several of the scholars of the previous day were there, to imbibe horsey knowledge, and a considerable number of fresh scholars paid their £2 a piece to be initiated into the professor's system of training and management. The course of instruction of Thursday was repeated yesterday, and several wild and unmanageable animals were brought iu for treatment. Mr John Brennan produced a horse, but the.|pr } ofessor pronounced it to be too tame a steed to serve as an illustration of bis system, and packed it off directly. Mr John Stone brought an unbroken and'timid horse, and the Eev. T. S. Grace an animal with objectionable peculiarities, and both were satisfactorily brought under speedy control. Mr John Cameron, of Marangai, come next with a horse which, though broken in (or supposed to be so), was addicted to violent fits of bucking, kicking, and, to quote its owner's words, everything else the professor could think of. Mr Sample found this to be a tough nut to crack, but an hour's intimate acquaintance with his "syslem." soon brought . Mr Cameron's unruly nag to admit that he had found his master. Mr John Stone s then introduced the professor to another horse, _ whose highly objectionaMe 'peculiarity was that it wouldn't suffer itself, to be tied up, but always^ broke the bridle. One of the most simple and effective branches of Mr Sample's treatment deals with this common vice, and Mr John Stone will hereafter find his horse standing tethered to a post or a fence without any remonstrance on the animal's part. All present expressed themselves pleased and satisfied with the professor's instruction, ■which during yesterday was one of the most keenly discussed topics in the town. We noticed that the colt which he took in hand so successfully on Thursday afternoon was easily riddeu up aud down the Avenue yesterday "by the owner, Mr Kobert Hair, and by other persons. The question has been freely asked — Can any of Professor Sample's pupils do for themselves what he shows them how to do ?. There can be no doubt that several of our leading settlers ■will Boon put the system in operation on young horses, and answer the question ior themselves ; and, for our part, we entertain little doubt that many of the scholars will find their lessons fully worth all the money they paid for them. As bearing upon this subject, and especially as the matter is one of the deepest interest to the settlers in and around Wanganui, we notice that someone at Hawera has been putting the new system into practical test. The Hawera Star says that Mr Duff, of that town, on Wednesday last determined "to try Professor Sample's horso-Ijreakiii£ system on a wild young colt belonging to him, which, though partly broken to saddle, was a buck-jnui'-iCr; :uul etherwise shy and awkward. After nn hour's breaking from the lime the aniejnl was caught, he was h-jrnovfoil up in ali^'nt sprint ' trap, and rororol cpiio quint. Tbis morning ho was driven about rown, .and though quiet vv.'.s l: .v-!v .'.'.•u kok'.J

none the worse for bis lesson. We believe this is the first attempt in Hawera to put the system to the test, and the result must be satisfactory to the rest of the £2 pupils. 1 ' Professor Sample will continue his classps at Mr Freeman B. Jackson's sale yards to-day, ■Monday, and Tuesday next, at noon each day, and we predict for him an abundance of scholars. He leaves here on Wednesday next for New Plymouth, and departs thence for Waverley on Friday, morning, lecturing in the Waverley Town Hall the same evening, and holding his class on Saturday morning in that building. The professor will i return to Wanganui on or. about Monday, | the 2nd July.