hard work; I will give either one of you $25.00 to do the 

 third one while I rest; take ray rope and knife and go 

 ahead. Prof. Pritchard saw the point, turned his back on 

 me and ha hawed out loud. He then said to Mr. Brown, 

 V. S., one of the ten invited friends of his: "Brown, you 

 never made five pounds in five minutes in your life; do one 

 and rest the gentleman." Mr. Brown replied, "I believe 

 not now Professor," and they all ha hawed. I acted aston- 

 ished and said, this is the strangest crowd I ever saw; that 

 none of you want any money. If you will go to America 

 and offer any Yankee $25.00 for a nut out of a horse like 

 one of these, I think in ten minutes he would show you the 

 seed or paw a bushel of guts out of the horse. But instead 

 of hearty ha ha's the music now was screams and howls and 

 sitting down on the dirty ground in mirth. 



I called the groom with the the third horse, saying, come 

 on, they won't help us, lets go on and get done. And I did 

 the third, fourth and fifth ridgling. These doctors had the 

 time and agreed on one hour and six minutes. While col- 

 lecting my ropes and instruments Prof. Pritchard was col- 

 lecting my pay and handed me $125 00, which he called 

 twenty-five pounds. We washed some at the barn and 

 went to the house and re-washed and took some wine. I 

 talked much more than my share to answer questions. 

 After a splendid dinner and drinks of more kinds than I had 

 ever seen on a table, with two hours more talk and our train 

 coming, these ten veterinary 's thanked me for the most 

 pleasant day they had spent in a year, and all said, "I will 

 collect business at my place for you, and want you to come 

 the day before and spend the night with me" I said to all 

 I will be much pleased to visit you at any time, when $100 



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