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I pull ht hair away fro you could just give ht every six hours the last few days and using warm compresses, but one of her teats is swollen and painful and now she’s not eating If you have any salve, I could work in trade"

One corner of the man’s mouth turns up, and he raises his eyebrows as if he thinks my ouldn’t be wortha flowered apron, leans out the back door "Phone call"

The vet lays down his hammer and strolls toward the house "Wait," he co around I’hborly welcome would have been nice Maybe I should have come by the road and dressed like a woman I find an e I’d just stayed at hos The open door of the barn reveals an old tractor, and the sh the yard Parked in the drive is a newer-model black Ford covered with dust and mud The woman watches me out the kitchen ; his wife, I suppose I nod, and she ducks back fro from the side, I jump up He walks softly with a little li a s and a wooden box and has a canvas jacket thrown over his shoulder

I frown "I can walk home"

He’s already hurrying toward the vehicle "I’ to Clover Bottom to deliver a foal" I hear by his clipped accent that he’s not fro like ht miles"

"Afterward I’ll see what I can do for your cow"

"But I don’t have the five dollars"

"If I need you for an assistant, this can be your payback Do you have shened ers, not especially dainty but good for the work I do I observe his wide hands in leather driving gloves

"They’re smaller than yours But what if you don’t need me?"

"Then you’ve wasted your afternoon and you’ll still owe me for the ho for the afternoon, anyway? NotMaybe this excursion will be interesting As strange as it sounds, I’ve never seen anything born but humans Not even kittens

"So where were you trained?" Hester asks,an effort to be civil as we bump over Salt Lick, where the creek runs clean and clear over the rocks