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Show 4 ing, ready to fight his assailant all over again - though he was as yet speechless and seemingly unconscious. Sister tried to quiet him, while I set out for help - a pretty hopeless gesture in that deserted area, but as luck or Providence would have it, a car came along, belonging to the Halliburton Oil Company, equipped with a telephone. The driver got in touch with one of the company's trucks and told the driver of that to come and pull out our ambulance. We kept our engine running for the sake of the heat, as the cold outside was intense; fortunately we had started with a full gas· tank. Hardly was the telephone receiver hung up when along comes a drilling rig truck. It was a matter of moments to hook on a tow-chain, pull the ambulance out of its ditch and for safety's sake up two more bad hills. Just as we thought all was well a rhythmical thump thump told us of a flat tire. With all the help at hand it didn't take long to put on the spare. The only village, by this crosscountry route, between us and Cortez is Towaoc, a Ute town and headquarters of the Southern Ute Agency in Colorado. Here the Ute police had been alerted, and were ready to give us escort, with sirens and red lights, all the way to the hospital at Shiprock. It was now daylight, and the trip had taken eight hours - a little more than twice the usual time. The doctors examined our patient at once, but could give no prognosis. For days we telephoned from Bluff for news but could tell the anxious parents only that it was nip and tuck. Then we were able to tell them that if he pulled through another twenty-four hours, he would be out of danger. He did. And he was." IDfD WE SAY something about routine? Listen to this from Catherine, who had been complaining about the same old stuffsore throat s, cough cough cough, measles, babies: "Lena had her baby at the clinic, went home well satisfied with the care she had received. Three days later she came back w'th her big black horse in tow. 'Horse is sick, give him shot' she said. I told her I was no vet, didn't know if a shot would do any good, anyway. Lena waited as only a Navaho knows how to wait till she gets what she wants · fhe horse was going around in |
