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our share of the profits on prescriptions accord- 

 ing to the agreement we had made with the store- 

 keeper, but that the storekeeper had refused to 

 settle. 



We took the matter up with him again then, 

 and he told us that he would share no profits 

 until enough money had come in from prescrip- 

 tions to cover his entire investment on the propo- 

 sition. The entire outlay had been for a full sup- 

 ply of drugs, scales, mortars, graduates, bottles, 

 ointment jars, labels, etc., and it amounted to 

 considerable; if we had to wait until he had his 

 money back for the whole outfit, we would be 

 waiting yet. 



Of course, he was figuring all right for him- 

 self, but the point to which we objected was that 

 our agreement made no such stipulation; it was 

 clearly agreed that we were to get a dividend 

 every few weeks. The reader will readily under- 

 that my brother and I would not enter into a 

 proposition from which we could draw no profit 

 for a year when we knew we would not remain in 

 town that long. The fellow was "trying to put 

 one over" on us. 



But the poor fellow made a mistake in addition 

 while he was doing all this figuring for himself. 



My brother and I had about exhausted the 

 veterinary possibilities in the region just then; 

 the harvest had been made and we could see a 

 slackening in work. We had seen every inch of 

 their country and were just about ready to "fly 

 the coop" anyhow. 



But it wasn't so easy to get away now ; we had 



