What medicine that feller did give! He gradual drifted into the vet'inary line.
"Then there come a homeopath--that was after a good many women folks had settled in along the railroad over west.

Still, there wasn't much sickness, and I don't reckon the homeopath ever did winter through.

I was livin' with the Bar T outfit on the Oscura range, at that time.
"Next doctor that come along was a ostypath." Curly took a chew of tobacco, and paused a moment reflectively.
"I said the first feller drifted into vet'inary lines, didn't I ?" he resumed.

"Well, the ostypath did, too.

Didn't you never hear about that?
Why, he ostypathed a horse!" "Did _what_ ?" asked Tom Osby sitting up; for hitherto there had seemed no need to listen attentively.
"Yes, sir," he went on, "he ostypathed a horse for us.