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__ Chapter 1: __ New Step to a new Life Papa has to leave to get some cash money. He leaves Travis in charge of the house this was a new start in Travis’s life to show that he is maturing. __ Chapter 2 __ : Scoundrel, Surprise, and Arliss’s New Yeller Friend Once Travis finds that the meat for dinner is gone he starts to wonder and finds out it was this old Yeller dog. After he found out that it was the Yeller dog he was going to hit the dog and throw rocks at him then little naked Arliss runs out and saves Old Yeller and wants to keep him. However Travis disagrees with him. Mama isn’t sure either and then lets little Arliss keep Old Yeller because she says when Travis was little he had a dog so now its Arliss turn. __ Chapter 3 __ : Skills and Hunting Travis has to go out to go get some dinner so he gets his gun and goes hunting. While Travis is waiting for a deer or bear to come by he caught site of two squirrels chasing each other on a tree. Travis was laughing and scared away a nearby doe so Travis knew that it was his “now or never” so he shot the doe and it hit her in the heart. However she only got injured. He knew that he hated watching them suffer so he felt really awful but he glanced over to the doe and she must have ran into a tree and there she was on the ground dead now he felt better that she didn’t have to suffer. __ Chapter 4: __ Ronnie vs. Congo; May the Best Bull Win! Travis had to go out to do some chores he then caught a glimpse of two bulls Roany and Chongo. They caused such a commotion that they broke down the fence and rammed into the house they made such a mess that they almost hurt Travis. That day was so crazy with all the mess that the bulls made. __ Chapter 5: __ The She Bear In this chapter little Arliss enjoys collecting any critters that he can possibly find. So when he saw a cub he thought that he could take a cub home so the mama bear had to defend the cub and tried to swing at Arliss Old Yeller came to save the day and saved Arliss from the bear! __ Chapter 6: __ Bud Searcy is back to the Licks In this chapter Bud Searcy is back to the Salt Licks and comes to visit Travis and his family. He then tells Travis about his uncle having hydrophobia and how he chained himself to a tree so he wouldn’t hurt his family. Bud Searcy also brings his granddaughter Lisbeth. Lisbeth has some news for Travis that Old Yeller is sneaking out at night and stealing the meat from the neighbors. Old Yeller also got Lisbeth’s dog Miss Prissy pregnant. __ Chapter 7: __ Trouble with the Coons In this chapter Travis is have trouble with the coons coming and stealing the crops so Travis and Old Yeller go and camp out in the corn field. They now found that they can bond together. At the end they have to break Spot from milking. __ Chapter 8: __ Burn Sanderson Comes to Town Burn Sanderson comes to the Salt Licks in this chapter and tells Travis and mama that Old Yeller is one of his herding dogs. When little Arliss finds out he throws a fit and Burn then realizes that they need Old Yeller more than he does he lets them keep Old Yeller. Later then Burn Sanderson tells Travis more about Hydrophobia and to be more careful he says if you ever see an animal with hydrophobia to shot it. This shows that Travis is starting to grow up and mature. __ Chapter 9: __ The Hunt for Hogs In this chapter Old Yeller and Travis go hunting for young and aren’t notched yet hogs. Lately Travis has been worrying about what Burn Sanderson has said about the hydrophobia. But he now knows what he might deal with. __ Chapter 10: __ Hurt by the Hogs In this chapter Bud Searcy tells Travis that he didn’t get all the hogs he missed some in sandy wash so Travis and Old Yeller set off to catch the hogs. While Travis was trying to pull up a hog he fell over and fell into the hogs. Just in time Old Yeller came to save Travis but he ended up getting very injured. Old Yellers stomach was cut and his head was cut too Travis only got injured on his shin it had a deep gash. Travis had to go get mama but could barely walk but he managed and went back to Old Yeller and took him home. __ Chapter 11: __ A Long Way Home Travis thought that he would never get home. But they did and when they did all that Travis could do is go up to his bed and Mama and washed up his wound. Old Yeller was badly injured mama also had to stitch up Old Yellers stomach. When Old Yeller was quivering and whining from such pain that he was going though. After a while they both got a little better. __ Chapter 12: __ Lisbeth Comes to Help After a while it got hard for mama to take care of Travis, watching after Arliss and doing chores and taking care of the house because Travis can’t with an injured leg. So Lisbeth came to stay at the house to help mama with the chores, watching after Arliss and doing anything that could help. __ Chapter 13: __ Hydrophobia Hits In this chapter Spot the bull has been acting weird. Travis figures out that he has hydrophobia. Travis remembers what Burn Sanderson said that he has to shoot anything that has hydrophobia. Travis can’t have his family in risk of catching hydrophobia so he shoots spot. __ Chapter 14: __ Burning of the Bull In this chapter Travis, mama and Lisbeth have to burn the bull. The reason why they have to burn him is Buzzards could eat it and get the disease from the bull’s meat. The burning took about 2 days until it was. __ Chapter 15: __ Taking Risks and Becoming an Adult In this chapter when mama and Lisbeth had to go way out to burn the bull. Old Yeller followed them. After a while Travis got a little worried about what was taking so long. Once he went outside he heard Old Yeller’s yelp. Then he saw mama and Lisbeth they yelled for Travis to get the gun. Then came Old Yeller and a wolf that was going crazy. Travis had to shoot the wolf but he didn’t want to take the risk and shoot Old Yeller but he had to. So he shot and got the wolf. But Old Yeller was bit by the wolf that had hydrophobia and Old Yeller had hydrophobia. Mama told Travis to shoot Old Yeller but Travis couldn’t do it. But if he didn’t Travis’s family could catch it so Travis knew that he had to and he did. __ Chapter 16: __ Surprise, Surprise In this chapter Papa comes home and he brings Travis a horse. When papa gets home Travis tells him all about what has happened when he was gone and about Old Yeller. However Travis is still upset about having to shoot Old Yeller it has been hard for him. But he still has Old Yellers pup and the pup stole the food like Old Yeller.