CHAPTER XXVI 



SOUTH DAKOTA AGAIN 



This second trip of ours into South Dakota 

 did not turn out to be a very successful venture 

 from a financial standpoint. In fact it was so 

 unsuccessful that it just about cured both of us 

 of our failing for an itinerant practice. 



We arrived during the first week in July, and 

 business was so slow in starting that we had to 

 resort to the method pursued by us in Idaho. 

 We would hire a rig every morning and drive 

 over a certain section of road soliciting work. 



We got a few calls, but most of the work we 

 did there on this trip we obtained by driving 

 about and asking for it. 



On one of these drives, we came to a farmer for 

 whom we had treated a colt a year previously, 

 just before we left for Idaho. 



The colt had fallen into a water trough and 

 had fractured the metatarsus of one hind leg. 

 The colt was six or eight months old at the time, 

 and the fracture was a complete, oblique break 

 with considerable displacement. We had treated 

 it ordinarily, with wood splits held in place by 

 plaster of paris bandages. 



When we saw the colt now, a full year later, 

 the result had been so perfect that it was not easy 

 to pick out the leg that had been broken. There 

 was a smooth fullness on the shin resembling a 



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