[344] in Humor
HUMOR: All Creatures, Great, Small and Violent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 11 11:25:59 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 94 11:18:55 EDT
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 1994 13:24:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Berczuk <berczuk@space.mit.edu>
From: Royce Buehler <buehler@sybil>
Subject: Life Fails Miserably to Imitate Art #38
In article <XRbritain-sheepUR8ec_4l4@clarinet.com>, clarinews@clarinet.com (Reuters) writes:
> LONDON (Reuter) - Author James Herriot, whose gentle
> accounts of the life of a British country veterinarian have sold
> around the world and inspired a television series, was in a
> hospital Monday after being attacked by a flock of sheep.
> The 77-year-old writer, whose real name is Alf Wight, was
> trying to stop the black-faced sheep from eating plants on his
> lawn when they butted and trampled him, breaking his leg.
> Herriot's ``All Creatures Great and Small'' and other books
> chronicled unusual animal behavior and the sometimes unorthodox
> methods used by a country vet to treat and control them.
> His wife Joan said they had been having problems with sheep
> getting onto their lawn in Yorkshire in northern England.
> ``It appears he's broken his leg round the hip,'' she said.
> ``It's most unfortunate.''
