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rapidly by a new invasion of the remaining por- 

 tion of the gland. 



Because of the manner in which we drove out 

 to get our business, we were compelled to carry 

 drugs and dispense. Only when doing business 

 in town could we write prescriptions for the edi- 

 fication and benefit of our friend, the druggist. 



When he discovered that our prescriptions 

 were not coming in as fast as he expected and 

 that we were dispensing, he began to "rob" us on 

 drugs. We had to buy everything from him 

 because we were too far from any other place 

 where we could get drugs. 



We stood for his "robbery" a while, and then 

 we induced a storekeeper, who was selling patent 

 medicines and crude drugs, to put in a line of 

 drugs for our benefit. The fellow was willing, 

 and we made an agreement whereby my brother 

 and I were to get our drugs for cost plus the 

 freight, and half the profit on all prescriptions, 

 which, of course, we had to compound ourselves 

 as the fellow was not a druggist. 



This was an incentive, to be sure, for us to 

 write all the prescriptions we could and cut down 

 our dispensing as much as possible. Within a 

 few weeks we had a nice share of profit coming 

 on prescriptions, but — the fellow wouldn't pay 

 up! 



I will go into this fully farther on in my story. 



