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if you will just fix the day and evening on them that 

 you will be there." 



" Where do you live?" 



" It is in the state of Pennsylvania." 



"Plow far is it?" 



"Sixty miles." 



"Is it a large place?" 



"Oh, yes; it is a large, thriving business town, and 

 lots of stiff and lame horses." 



" When I start this science in a place I have to stay 

 some time to introduce it. I want a big field to work 

 There is no use stopping in a small place. This is a 

 rather hard science to introduce. It is in advance of 

 the age to cure horses without medicine. I will come 

 to your place first. I will fix the time on some bills. 

 You put these bills up in all of the public places, and 

 secure a hall for the evening. I will be on the 

 ground." 



After arranging matters at home by dividing m}^ 

 money with my wife, closing my house, she and my 

 boy Frank left this town to visit their relatives and 

 friends in Auburn city and other places, I was pre- 

 pared for a long campaign battling for the horse. 

 With my shoeing tools and bills in a heavy satchel, 

 when the day came I set sail. I arrived in this town 

 about noon. I must say I was never more disap- 

 pointed in my life. I do not remember the place's 

 name, neither do I remember this veterinarian's name. 

 It was a little huddle down in a sunken place sur- 

 rounded with high mountain peaks. There was no 

 way I could see out without looking nearly straight 

 up. One old run-down, dilapidated hotel. About 



