Chapters 4-6 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 4 Herriot records the activities of the first day of a voyage to Russia. He has been hired to go along on this voyage to look after the medical needs of a herd of sheep being sold to the Russians. The trip was set up by a former veterinary student of Herriot's. Notice that in the beginning of this chapter Herriot points out that this novel records the events he experienced immediately following his time in the R.A.F. Herriot's first journal article is dated in October of 1961, a hint of when these events have taken place. Note also that when he left his internship with Herriot, Crooks filled a bottle with the air from his surgery. This act insinuates a great deal of respect on the student's part for the way Herriot and his associates did...