Zeke and Doc
Part 2

Zeke always had plenty of horses around and horse trading was kind of a hobby of his, but I quess he wasn't to good at it. One day when my Dad was a teenager, Zeke told him he was going horse-trading and he rode off in the early morning riding one horse and leading three more behind him. About supper time here came Zeke packing his saddle. So much for his horse trading abilities.

Zeke loved horses. He had the same three as long as I can remember, a matched pair of bay's, a mother and son team. Babe, the mother, was a holy terror and the son Gup docile as a lamb. He also had an old brown work horse Pet. In later years when everybody was using tractors, Zeke was still using horses.

One time Doc Bryant sent for Zeke and told him to hurry. Zeke hitched the bays and headed to Doc’s place. When he got there Doc was on the phone, the kind you used to have to crank. He turned to Zeke and said "We got a man snake bit bad on Woodland Ridge. Are you ready?" Zeke replied he was. Doc turned back to the person on the phone and said "Stick his leg in a bucket of kerosene. Zeke and I will meet you half way on the Woodland Grade. Doc hung up the phone and they jumped in the buck board. Zeke put the bays to the test, with Doc holding on for dear life along with trying to keep his medical bag from flying off. They met the other wagon way more than half way up the grade. Doc jumped out of the buckboard and jerked the man’s leg out the bucket of kerosene. After close examination, Doc shouted "I don’t see no snake bite!" The driver of the farm wagon spit out a wad of chewing tobacco and replied. "I know, Doc. He got bit in the arm." The patient survived although he lost the use of his arm for a few months.
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