Prof. O. S. Pratt.
Dear Sir: We, the undersigned, express our satisfaction of the tuition we have received from you in the education of the horse and most cheerfully recommend your art to all who own, have or use horses, as being the best known and exhibited.
The manner in which you handled all the vicious horses brought to you here, completely subduing them in a very short time, gave us the greatest satisfaction.
Your liberality and gentlemanly deportment have secured numerous friends.
Trusting you will meet with the same success in other places that attended you here, and hoping you may be long spared to propagate your noble system of horse training, we are, etc.
(Signed),
- H. B. Hunt, Brewer.
- G. H. Ramoy, C. E.
- C. Ramoy, Coal Merchant.
- Dr. Tracey, M. D.
- S. M. Hicks, Miller.
- E. F. Pots, Wholesale Liquor Merchant.
- J. C. L. Ware, P. O. Clerk.
- John Lake, Livery.
- T. C. Walbridge, Ex-M. P.
- Wellington Boulter, Insp. Life Ins. Co.
- Geo. A. Simpson, Coal Merchant.
- Stephen Garrett, Bailiff.
- Hawley & Morden, Hawley House.
- G. W. Allen, P.O. Clerk.
- Henry McNinch, Blacksmith.
- And ninety others.
From Belleville I went to the town of Picton, where I found many admirers of that noble animal, the horse. Though the place is not large, the people flocked to my exhibitions, and gave me a class of one hundred and forty members, while, after I had left their town, and was engaged at the village of Wellington, twelve miles distant, a deputation from Picton waited on me, and presented me with the following diploma, which will speak for itself:
Picton, May 17, 1875.