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I overheard one youngster asking another: Has he grilled you on the causes of fits in calves yet? Don’t worry, he will. That made me feel suddenly old but there was compensation on another occasion when a newly qualified ex-student rushed up to me and offered to buy me all the beer I could drink. You know what the examiner asked me in the final oral? The causes of fits in calves! By God I paralysed him—he had to beg me to stop talking. And

James Herriot

I overheard one youngster asking another: Has he grilled you on the causes of fits in calves yet? Don’t worry, he will. That made me feel suddenly old but there was compensation on another occasion when a newly qualified ex-student rushed up to me and offered to buy me all the beer I could drink. You know what the examiner asked me in the final oral? The causes of fits in calves! By God I paralysed him—he had to beg me to stop talking. And

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