CHAPTER XI 



A TOWN A DAY IN OKLAHOMA 



As I have related previously, when a physician 

 advised me to go to Hot Springs, Ark., in the 

 spring of 1907, I sold my interest in the El Paso 

 Veterinary Hospital and went. The treat- 

 ments at Hot Springs did not benefit me a great 

 deal, and it is my opinion that the baths are not 

 indicated in such infections as the one I was suf- 

 fering from; they are too debilitating. With an 

 infection of the pus producing organisms, such as 

 I had, this debilitating effect of the baths is really 

 detrimental ; at least, it was in my case. 



However, I continued to take the baths as pre- 

 scribed by the physician until I was sure that my 

 condition was not improving; and at about the 

 same time my money sack was getting rather flat. 

 I concluded then that I was losing at both ends 

 and decided to move on. 



This decision, to move on, was easily arrived 

 at; but where to move on to was not so easy to 

 decide. 



I had sold my practice and had spent the few 

 dollars I got for it. I was now over a thousand 

 miles from home, among strangers, and with not 

 enough money left to pay for painting a good 

 "shingle," not to mention equipping an office. 



So there was nothing left for me to do but to 

 "hit the road." As I have previously related; 

 from Hot Springs I went to Little Rock, 



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