80 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



These were carefully arranged in one front win- 

 dow along with a large rectal syringe and a 

 mouth speculum. 



In another town the local horse physician had 

 his "office" in a barber shop. 



In still another a small cigar factory harbored 

 the "bot specialist." 



But the fellow whom I located in a small 

 brewery had the best headquarters of all; and 

 from the beautiful mixture of scarlet and Yale 

 blue mingling in the epidermis of his nose I 

 judged that he wasn't letting any chance go by 

 to test the brew between calls. 



One other odd headquarters for a "Doc" which 

 I remember seeing there was in a photographer's 

 place. 



When I asked this quack why he had selected 

 a photograph gallery for his "hangout" he said, 

 "I done it to help elevate the perfession. It gives 

 a man more prestige." 



I recommended a padded cell for him. 



One other interesting feature in connection 

 with this part of my wanderings appertained to 

 the peculiar "side-lines" which some of these 

 practitioners had. 



One of them sold sewing machines "on the 

 side." 



Another was a loan-shark on a small scale. 

 He made a practice of loaning small sums to 

 niggers, charging in the neighborhood of ten per 

 cent a week interest. When a nigger came to 

 borrow ten dollars from him he gave him only 

 nine, holding out the $1.00 interest in advance. 

 At the time I met this quack he had around two 



