18 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



I arrived in Houston on the sixth of October; 

 and it was hot. I left the north with my winter 

 clothes, as it was getting quite chilly there when 

 I left. There, in Houston, for the first weeks I 

 thought I would die from heat and I spent a 

 great part of the time riding on the front end of 

 street cars, where the breeze was strong, trying to 

 keep cool. 



When I arrived and got out of the Grand 

 Central Station, I got into one of the hotel buses 

 standing at the curb and was taken to the Hotel 

 Rice. I registered, and then went into the cafe ; 

 then I went back into the lobby and got my grip 

 back and told the clerk to check me off the reg- 

 ister again. I had found out that it would cost 

 me about four dollars a day to stay there and in 

 view of my cramped financial position, I had to 

 change hotels. 



I went from the Hotel Rice to. the Bristol 

 Hotel, where I could stay for two dollars a day. 

 I remained a guest there for half a day. 



After depositing my satchel at the Bristol 

 Hotel, I began a search for the State Veterina- 

 rian, to whom I had a letter of introduction, and 

 found him in a small wooden building very much 

 like a small real estate office on a new town addi- 

 tion, on the corner of Famine and Prairie 

 Avenues. 



He was a fine, gentlemanly man and, as he 

 was a native of the north, I soon came to feel at 

 home. He was in need of an assistant but could 

 not quite afford to pay me what I thought I was 

 worth. 



