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irrigation purposes. The builders of this dam 

 employed around three hundred horses and 

 mules, and we thought we might find a lot of 

 work to do among them. 



When we got off the train we walked to the 

 end of the one street in the town and sat down on 

 the stoop in front of a hardware store. We took 

 an inventory of our cash and there were just two 

 dollars and ninety-five cents all told. We were 

 now about three thousand miles from home, 

 among total strangers, and a rather dubious out- 

 look for improvement. We were in a deuce of a 

 hole ; if we were not successful in landing a good 

 bit of work at the dam, we would most surely 

 have to ride out of town on the bumpers or walk. 

 The town was too small, we thought, to keep one 

 veterinarian in cigar money, let alone support 

 two in grub. 



It was about three o'clock in the afternoon 

 when we got through counting our cash, and in 

 view of the standing of our money bag, we 

 decided to make an attempt to get out to the 

 dam-site at once. 



I walked over to the livery stable and asked 

 how far it was to the place, and was told it was a 

 good fifteen miles out and that the charge for 

 hauling us out there would be three dollars. 

 Here was some regular tough luck! Fifteen 

 miles to the dam ; we had been told it was two or 

 three miles from town. And three dollars for a 

 livery rig to the place ; and we had only $2.95 ! 



I went back to the hardware store where my 

 brother was sitting on the stoop waiting for me, 



