62 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



If I wanted to come he would pay me a hundred 

 dollars per month salary and in addition, to make 

 it a little more interesting, five per cent on all 

 work done. If I accepted he would wire me 

 transportation and I might consider myself en- 

 gaged if the proposition suited me. 



Well, it did not take me very long to decide. 

 I believe within an hour after I received the let- 

 ter, I had sent him a telegram, accepting the of- 

 fer and asking him to forward the transportation. 

 The latter was of some moment; from Houston 

 to El Paso is eight hundred and twenty-five 

 miles. At three cents a mile this made twenty- 

 four dollars and seventy-five cents, and I could 

 well make use of so much money in those days. 



Within a couple of days I had collected a few 

 bills that I had outstanding, sold my few pieces 

 of office furniture and said good-bye to Hous- 

 ton and my friends there for the last time. This 

 was on the Fourth of July, 1906, and I have not 

 been there since. 



