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I know not. In the fall Mr. Burdick brought this 

 horse to J. J. Doan's stable to have him kept for a 

 while. Joseph saw the condition this poor horse was 

 in at a glance. He told Mr. Burdick his horse could 

 be cured for fifteen dollars, no medicine used, and a 

 cure warranted or no pa}^ I have no time to do it. I 

 can bring a man that will do it. Oliver soon came 

 around. They told him all about the operation. Mr. 

 Burdick soon saw the principle was all right. He left 

 the horse in their cui'e completely, and never got weak 

 in the knees or head since he first enlisted in this army 

 battling for the horse, which I shall show before I get 

 through this work. Oliver had made quite a start 

 previous to this; he had cured several horses for dif- 

 ferent parties, and Dr. Quigly was one. He proved to 

 be a Q^ood soldier. He is a scientific man. He soon 

 saw the principle was all right. I saw that with such 

 men as these to help we could make it go now. They 

 w^ere not afraid to talk and tell the truth. We have 

 got in the hands of men of science, men that can see 

 the change in their horses at once and how it is done. 

 I was soon in Auburn. I found Oliver in a box 

 stall with this gray stallion. '" Now," said he, " we 

 have got a good horse and a good man. This horse 

 is well known to be a cripple ; he is a fine one, and a 

 liorse that will attract attention, and I am going to 

 c-ire him. I have got this business in the firm where 

 I have been trying a long time,-^and on this horse 

 iiaugs the whole business. If this job does not wake 

 up the people I am going to bury the whole science." 

 While we were talking Mr. Burdick came in. I told 

 him what we had been trvin^c to do for ten years, and 



