If Only They Could Talk

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Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Example. A teacher asks what i am reading. '1984' i reply, a classic, well known work, and one of George Orwell's greatest pieces. Instead, i vaguely describe of how James treats Phin Calvert’s calves for lead poisoning with Epsom salts and saves his bull from heatstroke by cooling him with water. Lccn 73177098 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18105 Openlibrary_edition Siegfried and Herriot go to a Pub (kind of bar but smaller and not sophisticated), they talk about veterinarian experience and ways of working.

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Observer After an evening among his tales, anyone with as much as a dog or a budgerigar will feel he should move to Darrowby at once. The author has a wonderful way of telling the stories. Some are sad and some are down right hilarious. In 1939, at the age of 23, he qualified as a veterinary surgeon with Glasgow Veterinary College. In January 1940, he took a brief job at a veterinary practice in Sunderland, but moved in July to work in a rural practice based in the town of Thirsk, Yorkshire, close to the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors, where he was to remain for the rest of his life. The original practice is now a museum, "The World of James Herriot". The portrayal of Siegfried is exactly as shown on the screen and it was brilliant. He was a fantastic character.When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. As long as I can remember , I always wanted to be a vet till I was around 17 when I found out , I wasn't doing too well with seeing the insides of animals. Many years later my vet needed some urgent assistance during a surgery on one of my dogs and I had no problem with seeing what I saw so maybe I missed my calling after all. Overall, Herriot's books are a testament to the power of compassion, empathy, and love, both for animals and for our fellow human beings. They are a joy to read, laugh-out-

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Siegfried remarks that he doesn’t understand why people keep pets (while surrounded by dogs). He has Tristan send ointment for Cranford’s boar and a faeces sample by post. Tristan mixes the parcels up. And it turns out this is something I’ve read before. Because All Creatures Great and Small, probably his best-known and best-loved book, was originally published in part as If Only They Could Talk. ( All Creatures Great and Small also included It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet and Let Sleeping Vets Lie; these three books were on their own considered too short to be marketed as standalone books, and so were combined into a single volume). Herriot remembers his high school years at the veterinarian practice. James was getting used to strange phone calls about many different ills in animals in the most recondite places of town and at the most unusual hours of the night. As well as, he was getting accustomed to listen to Siegfried fighting with his brother Tristan. In this chapter, Herriot affronts a difficult case of a reversion of uterus in a cow and he takes Tristan with him in case he needed extra help with the case. Siegfried was very happy because his hens have given him 10 eggs! Tristan, as usual, was in charge of feeding the animals, but today he was distracted by the hens for some minutes, and the pigs escaped. The pigs were running and making disasters all along the city, when he realized that the pigs had escaped he let the door of the hen house open and the hens escaped too! Siegfried was really angry with Tristan for what had happened and he sent him to look for the animals all over the town.Winter had arrived in Yorkshire Dales and James Herriot had to work at first hour of the day with an unconscious cow. James injected some calcium to the cow and at the next day it was totally recovered. Copper family invites Mr. James to take breakfast with them. Greatly enjoyed your table of contrasting the differences between the first James Herriot book and how it contrasts to the TV series. How did the Easter Island statues move? Archaeologists are still trying to work out how - and what their story really means.

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A pretty funny account of the life of a young vet in Yorkshire, with interesting characters, both animal and human.If you are even slightly interested in animals, stories, people, romance, England, and Vets, this is the book for you. I should mention that you will COMPLETELY fall in love with the settings, and if you do enjoy the books, they made a rather good, and very accurate, series of it. Of course, the books are better, but a noble effort to do justice to a magnificent piece.