Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

This singular personage, says a late Nashville paper, has been in this city for several days, and his wonderful skill in the management and taming of horses hundreds can testify.
A few experiments that I saw with my own eyes would satisfy the most incredulous. A few days since, in front of the Union Hall, of Gallatin, a strange and wild horse, the property of Dr. Hall, of Gallatin,was presented to him for a trial of his skill, and in less than ten minutes, he made him gentle as a dog, the horse following him wherever he went. The same horse would not permit an umbrella to be hoisted over him, but in the hands of Offutt, he soon became as familiar to an umbrella as to a bridle, and would stand perfectly still, while the umbrella was not only hoisted, but rattled about his head, and struck on the face with it.
Several other cases, equally as remarkable, I could state, but the above will suffice. The great beauty of the art is its simplicity, and the short time it takes him to communicate it to others.