<p>Eli was anxious for me to look at this steer. "Doc," he said, "what do you think about that mass on this steer?"<br>"I have no idea, Eli. We will probably have to stick a needle into it and get a sample under the microscope," I replied.<br>Eli listened as he was cleaning his fingernails with his large pocket knife. "Yeah, Doc, you get your needle ready. I have got to get back to the pens," he said, half chuckling under his breath.<br> -from Cowboy Education</p><p>Adding to the series of Dr. David E. Larsen's Memoirs of a Country Vet, book five takes a step back from veterinary medicine and covers life's events that prepared him to become a veterinarian. With a diverse background, an active farm boy from the Coquille River Valley struggles through his early life to finally, become a veterinarian. This set of memoirs starts with an early experience and goes through early school, high school, college, an Army enlistment, then more college, and veterinary school.</p>