Chapters 2-3 Summary

In the morning, Hud returns from town, having stayed up all night avoiding a storm. He is a few hours late picking up Granny, and she eagerly gets into the car, and the two depart for the hospital. Soon Newt Garrett, the local horse doctor, shows up, because Granddad has called him to ask about a heifer that has dropped dead. Lonzo, the other hired hand, has stayed in the pasture all night, guarding the cow from the buzzards. Although Hud thinks that they should just take the carcass to the processing plant so that they can still use the tallow and hide, Granddad thinks that the sudden death seems suspicious, and wants to have Newt check it out. Lonnie, Jesse, and Granddad all take Newt to see the heifer, and bring Lonzo his breakfast. Newt does not see any obvious...