CHAPTER XXII 



WE GET A RAW DEAL 



About four or five weeks after we located in 

 this little town a man came to see us from the 

 dam-site with the request that we call at the dam 

 for the purpose of investigating some trouble 

 they were having among their horses. 



I questioned him thoroughly in regard to the 

 nature of the trouble and was informed that they 

 had been losing two or three horses a week. I 

 told him that we would go out and locate the 

 trouble and put a stop to the losses for one hun- 

 dred dollars a day. If it could be accomplished 

 in one day that would be their good fortune ; if it 

 took a week it would be our good fortune. I gave 

 them reasonable assurance that we could prob- 

 ably complete the job in three days without much 

 doubt. 



The man returned to the dam to report to the 

 superintendent, who was to call us if our propo- 

 sition was satisfactory. He called up the same 

 evening, saying that we could start in the 

 morning. 



The next morning my brother and I drove out, 

 arriving at the dam about nine o'clock. 



Two horses were sick when we got there ; both 

 had typical attacks of acute indigestion. 



One of the men in charge told us that the seven 

 or eight horses that had died had acted exactly 



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