In the forty years that Doc Rayburn had been practicing medicine, he had been responsible for bringing almost half the population of Pontotoc Ridge, Mississippi into this world.
He had been in the habit of wearing nothing but surgical greens for so long the people of tiny Pontotoc Ridge no longer noticed, but a stranger might mistake his unkempt appearance and quiet manner for a lack of sop.
At sixty-five, he still stood an erect six and a half feet.
Many for the price of a couple of chickens.
In the forty years that Doc Rayburn had been practicing medicine, he had been responsible for bringing almost half the population of Pontotoc Ridge, Mississippi into this world