144 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



could see that he felt pretty good about some- 

 thing. 



"Well," I asked him, "what's on the pro- 

 gram?" 



"Easy pickings," he says, "tonight when the 

 fellow comes in we are to fix that mule's teeth, 

 and examine the mouths of four more." 



There is no use trying to write down how good 

 we felt then. 



Just about sun-down they came in with his 

 team and two more teams. We floated all their 

 mouths, six of them ; and the last two by lantern 

 light! When we finished up, the fellow paid us 

 twelve dollars, and I don't remember any time in 

 my life when I felt as rich as I did with my half 

 of that twelve dollars that night. 



We were in a new world once more, and we 

 slept a good sleep in the hotel that night. 



It wasn't such a bad little town after all and 

 we decided to "stick around" a while. 



