Heh! I know, right? :D I did the first book, and it was so boring; then I opened the second one to the right place and all but cackled with glee.
(It's from The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot; if you're not familiar with him, he was a country vet in the wilds of Yorkshire back when antibiotics were first discovered. The quoted sentence is from a description of treating a cow with a dislocated hip, with the aid of some German POWs who were quartered with the farmer.)
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Date: 2012-09-22 09:31 pm (UTC)(It's from The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot; if you're not familiar with him, he was a country vet in the wilds of Yorkshire back when antibiotics were first discovered. The quoted sentence is from a description of treating a cow with a dislocated hip, with the aid of some German POWs who were quartered with the farmer.)