In Horse Sense, the very first episode of All Creatures Great and Small, newly qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the Yorkshire Dales to begin his career at a rural practice. Facing eccentric farmers, skeptical clients, and a strong-willed boss, Herriot must prove he has what it takes. Based on the beloved memoirs of James Herriot, this heartwarming series blends gentle humor, countryside charm, and touching animal tales in a timeless British classic.
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04:04He shouldn't be long before he's back.
04:42I suppose Mr. Farnham is out on a case?
04:58No, he's gone through to Broughton to visit his mother.
05:00I don't know when he'll be right back.
05:02He'll be right back.
05:04He'll be right back.
05:06He'll be right back.
05:08He'll be right back.
05:09He'll be right back.
05:42Quiet!
05:48Hello, hello. Mr Farnanen?
05:50I'm afraid not. Can I help you?
05:52Could you give a message when he gets back?
05:54Telling Bert Sharp from Barrow Hills has got a cow that wants boring out.
05:58Boring out?
06:00That's right. She's never going on three cylinders.
06:02Three cylinders?
06:04Aye, and if we don't do summat, she'll go wrong on a ewer, won't she?
06:08Very probably.
06:10And we don't want felon, do we?
06:14Certainly not.
06:15Don't forget, then. You tell him.
06:17Tell her!
06:40Tell him.
06:50Okay.
06:51It's the last one.
06:53I don't know.
06:55. . .
07:24begins this name.
07:26Good afternoon.
07:28Anything I can do?
07:30Of a cow grunting a bit.
07:34Well, um,
07:36someone better come out and have a look at her.
07:41Ah, well, I don't know.
07:44She might not be as bad as all that.
07:46Whatever you say.
07:48Oh, it's what you say. Your threat.
07:50Well, it is a bit difficult.
07:52After all, we haven't seen her.
07:54I think perhaps someone should pay her a visit.
07:56That's all very fine.
07:58But it's the expense.
08:00It costs ten bob every time one of you lots sets foot on my place
08:02and that's before you start.
08:04And then there's medicines and everything else on top of it.
08:06Yes.
08:08Well,
08:10perhaps you'd like to take something away with you.
08:12A tin of stomach powder, perhaps.
08:14How do you know it's stomach?
08:16I don't actually.
08:18That might be somewhat else. That's very true, yes.
08:20Now, look here. It's a damn good cow, this is.
08:22And I paid 50 pounds for her at Slab's Carbon Market.
08:24Yes, I'm sure she is.
08:26Consequently, I really do feel she'd be worth a visit.
08:29How about this afternoon?
08:32Ah, but would it be just one visit?
08:34No, happen you'll be coming again tomorrow
08:36and maybe day after that
08:38and before we know it, we shall be landed with a clunking great bill.
08:41I'm very sorry, Mr. Biggins, but everything is very expensive these days.
08:44Hey, ask my cow.
08:45Sometimes it'll be cheaper to give your cow a tend of it all.
08:48Well, hardly.
08:50But I do see how you feel.
08:52How about taking a fever drink as well as a stomach powder?
08:57That'll be safer.
08:59You still couldn't be sure, could you?
09:01No, not quite sure. Not absolutely sure.
09:03She might even have a wire in her.
09:05Yes.
09:06Yes, she might.
09:07Well, shoving medicine down her neck then is not going to do any good, is it?
09:10No, it isn't. You're right.
09:11Now, look here. I think a lot of this cow the nose and I can't afford to lose it.
09:14I realise that, Mr. Biggins. That's why I think she should be seen.
09:16I did suggest that, if you remember.
09:19Ah, well, maybe that's the best then.
09:21Yes.
09:22Look, happen we better leave her while morning and see how she is then?
09:25That's a very good idea.
09:27You have a look at her first thing in the morning
09:29and give us a ring before nine if she's no better.
09:33What if she doesn't last till morning?
09:36Well, there is always that risk, of course.
09:38No good ringing you if she's dead, is it?
09:40True.
09:41Might just as well ring Mallock.
09:42Mallock?
09:43Yeah, Nacoban.
09:44Oh, yes. Afraid so, yes.
09:45That's no bloody use to me, is it? Five pounds from Mallock for a good cow.
09:48I do see how you feel, Mr. Biggins.
09:50I think a lot about this cow.
09:51Yes, I'm sure you do.
09:52It'll be a very big loss to me.
09:53Right then, what do you propose to do about it?
09:55Well, let's see.
09:56Suppose you leave it until tonight to see if she recovers,
09:58and if she's not right, say by eight o'clock,
10:01you could give someone a ring and they would come out and have a look.
10:04You come round then?
10:05That's right.
10:11Last time you came out at night, you charged extra for it.
10:14I know you did.
10:15Well, that is usual in veterinary practice.
10:17Well, I shall be worse off than I were afore then, won't I?
10:19Well, if you put it like that, yes, I suppose so.
10:21I'm not a rich man on us.
10:23No, I realise that.
10:24It takes me all my time to pay to ordinary bills without getting a lot of extra on top.
10:27Yes, I'm sure.
10:28So that's a bad egg of an idea, isn't it?
10:30Yes.
10:31Right then, well, I'll be off.
10:32Yes.
10:33Grunting a bit, she is.
10:36She's a good cow.
10:37I can't afford to lose her.
10:39I can't afford to marry here.
10:41I can afford to lose her.
10:42I cannot afford to strips in any medical gr
11:38Oh, how do you do?
11:58Oh, there was Mr. Biggins here about a sick cow.
12:03He wanted us, um, you to visit.
12:05No, I mean, he didn't want you to visit.
12:07He just wanted a tin of stomach powder.
12:09Except that he, um...
12:10It was Mr. Biggins' well.
12:11Oh, yes.
12:12His cow sounded in a bad way, though.
12:14Ah, yeah.
12:15Oh, and there was a Miss Brompton here.
12:16She came for tea, and I explained that you were being called away.
12:19Ah, yes.
12:21Well, never mind about that.
12:22But I am sorry I wasn't here when you arrived.
12:23I have a shocking memory.
12:25I just forgot.
12:26Come on, I want to show you the place.
12:27Very conservative folk farmers, and the devil's farmers more conservative than most.
12:33Ah, there you are.
12:35The surgery.
12:36What do you think of it?
12:37It looks very good.
12:39Excellent.
12:40Yeah.
12:41It seemed to have everything.
12:42Yes, well, of course, it was very old-fashioned.
12:44When I took over, this sort of thing, I had to introduce a lot of new staff.
12:50Ah, look at this, Harriet.
12:51Adrevan.
12:52The remedy par excellence for red-worming horses.
12:55Bit expensive, though.
12:56Ten bobcat packet.
12:58Look at this.
12:59Gentium violet pessaries.
13:01Shop one of these in a carousel to each of us after a dirty cleansing.
13:04Turns the discharge is a very pretty color.
13:06Maybe looks like it's doing something.
13:08Do you know this trick?
13:11A few crystals of resublimated iodine.
13:14A few drops of turpentine.
13:25It's like witchcraft, isn't it?
13:27I use it for wounds in horses' feet.
13:30The chemical reaction drives the iodine deep into the tissues.
13:35It does?
13:36Well, I don't know.
13:36It's a theory.
13:37Anyway, you must admit, it looks wonderful.
13:39It presses the toughest client.
13:40Oh, there is my latest purchase, a wonderful thing.
13:49Oh.
13:50Here, take a peep at my retina.
13:56Very pretty.
13:57Huh?
13:58Yes, I think I could write you a certificate of soundness.
14:00I'm glad you hear that.
14:01Always thought I had to touch a cataract in that one.
14:03And here is the theatre.
14:08Not much small animal work in this district.
14:11I'm trying to encourage it.
14:12Makes a nice change from lying on your belly in the car halves.
14:14Of course, a lot of the old hands wouldn't look at a dog or a cat,
14:16but the profession has got to change its idea.
14:19Oh, yes.
14:19Well, what do you think of it all?
14:23Really first class.
14:27Oh, there was another caller while you were out.
14:32Bert Sharp.
14:33Bert Sharp, yeah.
14:34I think he thought you may have been a garage.
14:36Something about boring out a cow going on three cylinders.
14:38And he talked about Ewer and Felon.
14:41Yeah, he wanted Hudson's operation doing on a block teat.
14:46Yeah, one of those.
14:47Ewer is the udder and Felon is the local name for mastitis.
14:51Well, I shall soon learn the local terminology.
14:53Um, yes.
14:56You know, if I'm successful enough to get the job.
15:00Look, I wasn't assuming that...
15:01No, no, no, no, no, that's all right.
15:02Well, we'd better be getting out to Sharpe's.
15:04There are one or two other visits.
15:05Oh, there we are.
15:07Now, look, why don't you come with me
15:10and I'll show you a bit of an history.
15:12I'd like that.
15:13Go on, boys.
15:14Come on, girls.
15:20Go on, get back.
15:21Go on, Christy.
15:22Go on.
15:23Get back.
15:24Go on, go on, go on, go on.
15:25Good boy.
15:26Go on.
15:34Oh, I am sorry.
15:36That sometimes happens.
15:37I should have warned you.
15:38Seat's a little loose.
15:39Let me take that.
15:56Name now where we're going.
15:58Yes.
15:59I saw some horses as I came.
16:01Still using them.
16:02Yes, but they're going fast.
16:04Pity.
16:05My favorite animal, the horse.
16:06Yes, fine animal.
16:09Still, if I was going to plow a field,
16:10I reckon I'd take a tractor.
16:11What?
16:12Do you like horses?
16:13Oh, yes, they're fine.
16:14It's just, well, you know, the work.
16:18Hmm.
16:19Well, I prefer working with horses to anything else.
16:21They're very interesting.
16:22If I should take you on,
16:23I suppose I could do most of the horse work myself,
16:25but obviously there wouldn't be ties.
16:27I like horses very much.
16:29I was just thinking of the labor of plowing.
16:33Not much plowing have you brought up on a farm.
16:36Uh, no.
16:37No, I was just, you know,
16:40imagining what it would be like.
16:43Ah.
16:44Come on, Mr. Fowler.
17:07Come over there.
17:08I'll get you.
17:09Come on.
17:34See you, Walter.
17:35One more chance.
17:50Which leg do you make it?
17:54Near four.
17:56I think so too.
17:58Would you like to examine it?
18:05This one's hotter than the other. Have you a hammer?
18:29Thanks.
18:31Up, girl. Up.
18:34That's it.
18:47Looks like pus in the foot to me.
18:49I bet you're right.
18:51They call it gravel here.
18:53Well, what do you suggest we do about it?
18:55We'll open up the sole and evacuate the pus.
18:58Right.
19:00I'll watch your technique.
19:08Damn.
19:09There are several places it could be.
19:13I'll try this one.
19:15This one.
19:25The mare likes you.
19:27She prefers to lean on you than her bad foot.
19:29Here it goes.
19:30She'll get relief now.
19:31Well done, Harriet.
19:32Just isn't funny when the horn's as hard as that.
19:35A shot of titanus anti-toxin.
19:37A shot of titanus anti-toxin.
19:38A shot of titanus anti-toxin.
19:40Come on, lady.
19:41Come on, lady.
19:42Come on, lady.
19:43Here it goes.
19:44Here it goes.
19:45She'll get relief now.
19:46Well done, Harriet.
19:48Just isn't funny when the horn's as hard as that.
19:50A shot of titanus anti-toxin.
19:53A shot of titanus anti-toxin.
20:05Come on, lady.
20:16There you go.
20:18Now then, Mr. Whitey, if you'll hold up the hoof,
20:22and I'll just disinfect the cavity.
20:26Come on, Blossom.
20:28Oh, Blossom.
20:29Oh, now, lass.
20:30Oh, Blossom.
20:32All right.
20:40By God, Mr. Farron.
20:42I wonder what the hell I've done to you for a minute.
20:45Ain't it wonderful what science can do nowadays?
21:05Got here, then.
21:06That's good.
21:08Afternoon, Mr. Sharp.
21:10You've got a blocked teat.
21:11That's about it.
21:12I thought you'd better see her.
21:13Right.
21:16There she is.
21:31Blocked.
21:32Hudson's.
21:37Yep.
21:38I'm sorry, young man.
21:39I ought to have told you.
21:40This is a very friendly cow,
21:41and she always likes to shake hands.
21:43Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:44Ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:45I'm sorry, young man.
21:46I ought to have told you.
21:47This is a very friendly cow,
21:48and she always likes to shake hands.
21:50Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:51Ha, ha, ha, ha.
21:52I'm sorry young man I ought to have told you this is a very friendly cow and she always likes to shake hands
22:22she'll be all right now yes but will you be
22:52she's going on all four cylinders now good
23:00thanks
23:17good health good health
23:22well you can have this job if you want it four pounds a week and full board okay
23:33thanks I accept good
23:38let me tell you about the practice I bought it from an old man of 80 year ago still practicing mind you
23:50marvelous tough old character but he got a bit beyond getting up in the middle of the night which isn't surprising and in other ways too he'd let the practice slide you know hanging on to all the old ideas some of those ancient instruments in the surgery you saw them belong to him well what with one thing or another there wasn't really much practice left I'm trying to build it up again now well from those visits this afternoon I'd say you were being very successful yes coming on the farmers do like to see a younger man about with new treatments new operations
24:20well well you know about one thing mummy I'm having the devil of a job trying to educate them out of the old three and six minute treatments they're marvelous people the dales you like them but they don't like partying with their brass unless you can prove that they're getting something in return
24:36you're looking pleased with yourself yes do I look so smug
25:06here well I must admit to feeling very relieved most chaps at college haven't found anything yes I know it's a bad time isn't it all those pathetic advertisements you can see in the record
25:18veteran resurgent fully experienced will work for keep very bad shouldn't be allowed bad for the profession offering services for nothing still we're all right here as long as we work hard aren't we yes there's a chap over there I want to have a word with extraordinary fellow he never can make up his mind whether to call us in or not
25:36back in a moment
25:38back in a moment
25:39back in a moment
25:41eh
25:42youngsters these days they don't take the trouble
25:45I repair an old cop's dry stone wall to the day you know where it comes down to it back
25:51some daft sod run his girl into it didn't he
25:53that's right any road I was setting it up again
25:56and one of these walking chaps come along you know all socks and walking stuff
26:01and he says to me that's making a good job of that wall
26:06so I said to him of course I am I've got to look at bugger for next thirty years
26:17a pint please
26:19you're new round here
26:21yes that's right
26:22came in with Mr Farnon
26:24that's right
26:25I'm his new assistant
26:26a vet
26:27that's right
26:28I expect you'll be seeing a lot of me around here
26:30aye
26:31but when you come here to tap the fluid off our beer barrels you pay us
26:35aye
26:36here's a new boss wanting his pint
26:38yes of course
26:39take for two would you
26:40oh James that's kind of you I see you've introduced yourself
26:42I has that
26:43he told us he came up to stop you killing off all the local cows
26:46oh come on
26:48well if the local cows are anything like your two miserable pigs it would be anything to do with them
26:52there's nothing wrong with our pigs
26:53no no no nothing
26:54that a good square meal wouldn't put right
26:58thank you
26:59all right Mr Farnon
27:00there you are
27:01no no no no
27:02oh you're doing that aren't you James
27:03that's very good of you
27:04there you are
27:05are you all right
27:06it's fine
27:07sorry
27:08thank you Mr Sharp
27:09good evening Mr Elliot
27:10oh Mr Sharp
27:11good evening
27:12knock a punch like my Violet does when I shake hands
27:14this young man here
27:16they met my Violet for the first time
27:18she's been going on three cylinders
27:20well she doesn't like people taking liberties
27:22until she shakes hands
27:24well she missed his hand
27:25and caught him right in the blood basket
27:27you should have seen this bit
27:29you ought to have that cow of yours put down worse than any bull
27:31no it's just friendly that's all
27:33still young fella it's just as well she aimed I
27:35otherwise you might have become the first gelded vet we've ever had in the Dales
27:39you can always sell an experience vet
27:42he sets himself where the cow can't kick him
27:45has they ever worked on a farm young man
27:47well
27:48no not exactly
27:49so all my knowledge is out of books is it
27:51no at college we used to go out and practice on farms
27:53oh ah learning on some poor farmer's stock
27:56under supervision of course
27:57well they'll be working here with Mr Farnon
28:00and keeping his eyes on they
28:01I'm now qualifying
28:03oh
28:04say have another one up
28:06come on
28:07now then young man
28:12I've something to tell thee
28:14I've been among base all my life
28:16I'm going to tell thee something
28:17oh yes
28:18I don't do with them chemicals
28:20but I know how to cure base
28:22well that's excellent
28:23if I had time lad
28:24I could tell thee so many cures
28:26I'd never believe it
28:27really
28:28I've seen a cow left for deed by a vet
28:31not Mr Farnon of course
28:33after giving it just a touch of something special
28:35she got up and walked away
28:37that's very remarkable
28:39aye it is that
28:40many of the rogues has tried to get the secrets from me
28:43but I kept them to me send
28:44well I'm sure they must be worth a fortune
28:46well I must be off
28:48before you go young man
28:49I'm going to tell thee someone
28:51as nobody knows but me
28:52I could have made a lot of money out of this
28:55folks has been after me for years to tell them
28:58but I never have
28:59it's the cure for mallanders and salanders in ossies
29:03not
29:04you can't mean it
29:05not mallanders and salanders
29:06but I do mean it
29:07all you have to do is rub on this side of the man
29:10and toss walks away
29:12sound
29:13and you're really going to tell me the name of this sound
29:16I am your man
29:18but only on one condition
29:20that must tell no one
29:22that must keep it to this end
29:23then nobody will know but they and me
29:26just they and me lad
29:27all right I promise
29:28I won't read a word
29:30Marshmallow hointment
29:33come on James time when you're off
29:43night time thank you very kindly
29:45good evening Charlie
29:51good evening
29:53thank you
30:03come on
30:13come on then you got
30:15come on then come on
30:22that was a very good night
30:24glad you enjoyed it
30:25oh I'll say I did
30:27this morning
30:29good morning
30:30I was in Glasgow
30:31out of college and out of work
30:32and tonight
30:33I'm in Yorkshire
30:34and in a job
30:36I'm very grateful
30:38not at all
30:39do you know if you hadn't found that infected spot in the mare's hoof
30:42or if you hadn't gone back to that cow after she'd shaken hands
30:46you'd be in Yorkshire but still out of a job
30:48well thank you anyway Mr. Farnham
30:50Siegfried's the name
30:52Siegfried
30:54a nightcap I think
30:58hmm
31:03yes it was a good night
31:05pretty valuable for you two wasn't it
31:08indeed I have to get to know the people
31:10no I mean professionally
31:13didn't you learn of a cure
31:15for Mallenders and Salander
31:18ah yes
31:19the Panama hat
31:20really he told me it was marshmallow hointment
31:22yes
31:23though come to think of it the Panama hat did look as though it had been eaten by a horse
31:27good health
31:29good health
31:30good health
31:31yeah you know the trouble is
31:35some of the time
31:37marshmallow ointment or
31:41Panama hats or burying a dead cat at midnight do just as much good as we can do
31:45come on Christie
31:47surely there are lots of new treatments
31:49yes there are some of them are damn good
31:51but you're gonna find time and time again
31:53you know exactly what the trouble is but there's nothing you can do about it
31:57specific remedies that's what we need James
31:59specific remedies
32:01something we can
32:03give them that will rarely go right to the seat of the infection and kill it and often we just don't have it
32:09no
32:11and we need vaccines too for all the common infections tuberculosis contagious abortion so on
32:17yes
32:19of course our surgical methods are marvellously sophisticated
32:21we can do things with a scalpel that would have astonished our fathers
32:25hmm
32:27vaccines and drugs
32:29killing them baby
32:31take horses
32:33well I rather pride myself on being an expert with horses
32:37I mean if you get a call to a horse
32:39check with me first will you
32:41hmm
32:42yes of course
32:43now what can you do about a really bad laminitis
32:45well keep them moving of course
32:47but that inflammation under the horn is the very devil
32:50now why can't we give the horse something it'll really go to the root of the trouble and cure it
32:54like you can inject a Recolin for intestinal sputum
32:57I mean to say I've always thought
33:01I'm sorry James
33:03I'm rattling on and you must be dead beat
33:06yes you're right
33:08we do need new vaccines for contagious abortion
33:13time for bed I think you've had a very long day
33:15yes perhaps we'd better
33:17what's time in the morning
33:19there's a small animal clinic 9 o'clock very keen to build it up
33:22right
33:26good night
33:27good night
33:36sorry to trouble you
33:37where do I sleep
33:38good lord
33:39didn't
33:40mrs. Hall show you
33:41well no she didn't know I'd be staying did she
33:43ah no no no of course not stupid on me
33:45this way
33:46thank you
33:47well there you are
33:48I hope you'll be comfortable here
33:49I'm sure I will
33:50good night
33:51good night
33:52well done
33:53James Herriot
33:55assistant veterinary surgeon in private room
33:57in private room
33:58I hope you'll be comfortable here
33:59I'm sure I will
34:00good night
34:01good night
34:02well done
34:03well done
34:04well done
34:20James Herriot
34:21assistant veterinary surgeon in private practice
34:26well I think
34:32thank you
34:33thank you
34:34yeah
34:35HP
34:38mad
34:39club
34:40you
34:41it
34:43过
34:44design
34:46you
34:48Let's go.
35:18Let's go.
35:38Good morning.
35:41Want to see the vets?
35:44This way please.
35:50Now what have we here?
35:54Ah!
35:58Tortoise.
36:00What's his name?
36:10Mr Tortoise then.
36:14Now what's wrong with him?
36:18Is he poorly?
36:20We'll have a look at him.
36:24Mm-hmm.
36:26Mm-hmm.
36:28Does he walk about?
36:32Ah, well perhaps he hasn't been walking about very much before.
36:40Yes, he looks fit enough.
36:46I tell you what.
36:48You keep him in a very warm part of the garden.
36:50And next time you bring him in,
36:52you bring your mummy too
36:54and then she can tell me what's wrong with him.
36:56All right.
36:58There we are.
37:02Hello.
37:04My God you've got a job on here.
37:10Will she ever go again do you think?
37:12She'd better or you're gonna do a lot of walking.
37:16I'm going to do a lot of walking.
37:18I'm going to do a lot of walking.
37:20You ought to have this car.
37:22This is my car.
37:24That's right.
37:26Admirable little beauty isn't she?
37:28Well, yes.
37:30Yes.
37:32Right, hop into mine.
37:34You'll have plenty of time to enjoy yourself riding around in that.
37:36I'll show you some more far.
37:38Right-o.
37:40Right-o.
37:42Right-o.
37:44You'll have plenty of time to enjoy yourself riding around in that.
37:46I'll show you some more far.
37:47Right-o.
37:48You'll have plenty of time to enjoy yourself riding around in that.
37:52I'll show you some more far.
37:54Right-o.
37:56Right-o.
38:16How's morning surgery?
38:18Not very busy really.
38:20How many?
38:21Only one.
38:23I don't think we're gonna make our fortunes out of that one.
38:25There's a great future in dogs and cats, you mark my words.
38:29This was a tortoise.
38:30Oh!
38:31What?
38:32Seligar!
38:33Uh...
38:34Did she say anything?
38:35Not a word.
38:36Seligar.
38:37She never does.
38:55Isn't it!
38:56This is死quet!
38:57Thus, we're getting sestyles to you know.
38:58Suddenly here's motivation!
38:59You're getting married.
39:00And this way I am.
39:01I love you.
39:02You're getting married.
39:03I love you.
39:04You're getting married.
39:05I love you.
39:06I love you, too.
39:07This was exactlyjan's sincerest thing.
39:08I love you!
39:09Your friends yalindical influence.
39:10It's been a right warm day, Joe.
39:29Yes.
39:30Never mind, you can look forward to a nice quiet evening.
39:33Miranda, do you mind holding the fort alone tonight?
39:36I want to pop over and see you on pop-up.
39:39Of course not.
39:40Good.
39:41So you're dying to get started on your own.
39:44There's plenty of time.
39:46In any case, I started this morning.
39:49Oh, of course you saved a daughter's life.
39:51Good.
39:53Oh, there'll be nothing this evening.
40:00Mr. Herriot?
40:01Yes.
40:03Phineas Calvert for thee.
40:04She's got a bull that sounds right badly.
40:06Hello, yes?
40:12That's right, Herriot.
40:15Oh, well, I'll come out and see him.
40:17Where are you?
40:18Yes, got that.
40:22I'll come out as quickly as I can.
40:27Wish me luck, Mrs. Hall.
40:28This one sounds really bad.
40:30There he is.
40:38Goose, then, lad.
40:41Goose, lad.
40:42Goose, my lad.
40:45Goose, then, lad.
40:45Poor bugger.
40:48Is there hope that can do?
40:50We'll have to see.
40:53He is a good bull, I know.
40:54Only started a couple of hours ago.
40:56Since then, he's got worse.
40:57Much worse.
41:00Puffing like a ball, as you are.
41:01A bit like New Mornay, you know.
41:04Worse than I've ever known.
41:05He's in all of a state, isn't he?
41:09Does he think he's going to peg out?
41:11Oh, I'm sure he'll be all right.
41:13Once we find out what's wrong.
41:16He and he has cost me a lot.
41:19Our expected best calves I've ever been to have out of this chap.
41:23And he's as quiet as a sheep.
41:26Is it bad?
41:28It's 110.
41:30It's hard to believe.
41:32What is it, then?
41:33You and your sheep on this farm?
41:34Aye.
41:35Are they all right?
41:36Nothing wrong with them?
41:36No, nothing.
41:38You passed them coming up, don't you remember?
41:40Oh, yes.
41:40You think in advance, that?
41:41To be honest with you, I'm thinking of anything I can.
41:50He's breathing so bad, he can't swallow his saliva.
41:56Well, I hate to see him suffering like this.
41:59Look, just tell me, if you can't do no good,
42:02then I'll go get the gun out.
42:03This is his hay?
42:05Aye.
42:12He's suffering badly.
42:15I'll go and get the gun.
42:16I'll not let him suffer.
42:17Has he been out today?
42:29Aye, he's been out on grass on death and all morning, it was so grand and warm.
42:33Get that hose up here, quick.
42:35Hose back?
42:36Yes, come on, as quick as you can.
42:38He's got sunstroke.
42:39We have to be quick.
42:44Good.
42:45We'll drop down dead in any minutes.
42:46Good.
42:46All right, tell the water on, please.
42:55All right, my beauty.
42:55He's swallowed.
43:06Did you see that?
43:06He's swallowed.
43:07He has.
43:08I think he's going to be all right.
43:09Right, now you take the hose.
43:12Good, then.
43:13And I'll take his temperature.
43:14Good, then.
43:14Keep the water on his head and shoulders, please.
43:17Good, then.
43:19Good.
43:22Good.
43:24There's no doubt he's getting better by the second.
43:28Here's that.
43:30It's 105.
43:30I'll give you that.
43:43Yes, we can leave him now.
43:45He'll get out of the water when he's had enough.
43:49Hey, my lad.
43:51Well, he may not be dry anymore, but my God, I am.
43:55Come on, young man.
43:58Here.
44:00Oh, there.
44:15Get us two brown heels, lads.
44:19This is Mr. Harriet.
44:20How to do.
44:22Is bull better?
44:23Yes, Mrs. Calvert.
44:24He's quite well now.
44:25He had sunstroke.
44:26Oh, well, I'd have thought of it.
44:37Get us out of here, lad.
44:39There you go.
44:41Well, I'll tell you, you're right flummoxed me, lad.
44:44I don't know what to say to you.
44:48Good, lad.
44:49Here we go.
44:52Well, thanks to this, young man.
44:53Oh, we'd have had a dead bull by now.
44:56Cheers.
44:57Aye, cheers, lad.
44:59Well, at least my bill should be reasonable.
45:01We only use cold water and I supply ducks.
45:03I shouldn't be too long.
45:10I'll leave right away.
45:16I am terribly sorry, Mrs. Hall, but I've got to go out again.
45:18Oh, surely you can have your tea first.
45:19I've got to treat a horse with colic.
45:21Minutes could count, besides which is Lord Halton's favourite hunter.
45:25Fickle things, horse's digestions.
45:27Wouldn't want to have to put him down for the sake of a few minutes.
45:29And what's about your digestion?
45:31You've got to have your tea.
45:32You can't go without your backing.
45:34Look, pop it back in the oven, would you?
45:35And I'll take it out when I get back.
45:38Aye, well, when you get colic,
45:40we shan't have to send to our V put-down.
45:44I'll just fade away.
45:45Mr. Soames?
46:03Yeah, I'm Mr. Soames.
46:05My name's Herod.
46:07I was expecting Mr. Farnham.
46:08Ah, unfortunately, he's with another client.
46:11Clever man is Mr. Farnham.
46:12We're old friends.
46:15Yeah, great friends.
46:18I understand you have a horse with colic.
46:20In one of his lordship's best hunters.
46:23In need of expert assistance, I'd say.
46:26How long has he been like this?
46:46Began with a bit of a bellyache this morning.
46:48I've been giving him black draughts all day,
46:50or rather this fella has.
46:52I wouldn't be surprised, though,
46:53if he's messing up like he does everything.
46:55Well, I've got the draughts down him on out, Mr. Soames,
46:57but they don't seem to have done him no good.
46:59Call yourself an horseman.
47:00I should have done the damn job myself.
47:02I reckon he'd have been all right by now.
47:03I've got more than that black draught to help him.
47:06May I have a bucket of hot water, soap, and a towel, please?
47:09What the devil for?
47:10You've done nothing yet.
47:11You want to have a wash?
47:12I want to make a ritual examination.
47:14Please may I have the water?
47:15God, I've never seen anything like this.
47:18All right, just don't stand there.
47:20Go and get him his water.
47:21Maybe we'll get something done.
47:24Oh, God, it would be while Mr. Farman's away.
47:27This is no ordinary colic.
47:28What the hell is it, then?
47:30Well, I can't say without examining him,
47:31but continual severe pains like this
47:33could be in a torsion, a twisted bowel.
47:35Twisted bowel on me foot.
47:37He's got a bit of bellyache, that's all.
47:38He's passed nothing all day.
47:40He just wants something to shift him.
47:41You did bring some arachicline, didn't you?
47:43If this is a torsion,
47:44arachicline would be the worst thing you could give him.
47:46He's in agony now, but that would drive him mad.
47:48It acts by contracting the muscles of the intestines.
47:51God damn it, I don't want a bloody lecture.
47:53I want that all skewered.
47:54Everything points to the same thing.
48:22I'm convinced that horse has a torsion.
48:24All right, I'll be your way, he's got a torsion.
48:26But for God's sake, do something, will you?
48:28Are we going to stand here all night?
48:29There is nothing anybody can do.
48:31There's no cure for this.
48:32You must put him out of his pain as quickly as possible.
48:34No cure?
48:35Put him out of his pain?
48:36What the hell are you talking about?
48:37I suggest you let me put him down immediately.
48:40What do you mean?
48:41I mean that I should shoot him now, straight away.
48:43I have a humane killer in the car.
48:45Shoot him?
48:47Are you stark raving mad?
48:48Do you know how much that horse is worth?
48:49It's not, Soames.
48:50It makes no difference what he's worth.
48:52He's been going through hell all day and he's dying now.
48:55You should have called me out hours ago.
48:57He may last a few hours more.
48:58And that's all.
49:01And he's in continuous, agonising pain.
49:03Why does this happen to me?
49:05His lordship's away on holiday.
49:07Otherwise I'd have him out here and try and make you see a bit of sense.
49:10If your boss was here,
49:11he'd have given that horse an injection
49:12and he'd have been all right in half an hour.
49:15Look, why can't we wait till Mr Farnham comes back tonight?
49:17Let him have a look at him.
49:28Mr Farnham will come round in the morning to carry out a post-mortem.
49:34I'd like Lord Halton to have my diagnosis confirmed.
49:36I'm going to inform his lordship about this and Mr Farnham.
49:39Well, ring him up.
49:40He'll be home later tonight.
49:41Yes, I will.
49:42And I'll let him know what sort of assistant he's landed himself with too.
49:45And I'll tell you something else.
49:47I'll be at that post-mortem and I'll see you proved wrong.
49:50And then I'm going to sue you.
49:58I'll see you next time.
50:28I'll see you next time.