While out looking for the wayward pony the following day the three of them come across a sick calf.
He said his ranch had a policy of euthanizing sick or injured calves with a contact shot from a rifle.
He was a block of a man, with what her father would have referred to as a "peasant build," one designed for carrying sick calves into the barn.
Isom crouched in the snow beside him, hanging his head like a sick calf.
You can tell at a glance what it is that ails a cow or a sick calf better than any vet.
He's like a sick calf, mooning about the office.
A sick calf was really more in Joanna's line.
What good would it do, the two of them bawling together like sick calves?
You sound like a sick calf.
"It started out when I was taking care of this really sick calf, Harvey," she said.