![]() ![]() ‘Phwaat’s that?’ Joe cupped his ear with his hand. ‘Now what did you say his symptoms were, Mr Mulligan?’ ![]() If he started something it would be on a spectacular scale. I didn’t mind my patients snapping at me but this one, I felt sure, wouldn’t snap. My boss Siegfried had told me that, when bored, Clancy would throw Joe to the ground and worry him like a rat and I became aware that my position, kneeling on the floor with my right ear a few inches from his mouth, was infinitely vulnerable.Īs Britain’s most beloved vet, James Herriot’s delightfully honest and at times hilarious reminiscences of a vet’s life in 1930s Yorkshire charmed millions in his books - and were turned into a long-running hit BBC seriesĪs I got to my feet, the dog gave me a cold glance without moving his head and there was a chilling menace in his very immobility. Looking like an Airedale but as big as a donkey, the huge hairy form had been brought into our afternoon surgery by his owner Joe Mulligan, an elderly and very deaf Irishman. In my limited past experience some Irish wolfhounds had undoubtedly been taller and a certain number of bull mastiffs had possibly been broader, but, for sheer gross poundage, Clancy had it. Īs the faint rumbling growl rolled up from the rib cage into the ear pieces of my stethoscope, the realisation burst upon me with uncomfortable clarity that this was probably the biggest dog I had ever seen. And as this exclusive reprint reveals around 50 years after it was first published, his magical work is still able to warm a nation’s hearts in this darkest of times. As Britain’s most beloved vet, James Herriot’s delightfully honest and at times hilarious reminiscences of a vet’s life in 1930s Yorkshire charmed millions in his books - and were turned into a long-running hit series. ![]()
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