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__Man of the House__- Papa leaves for Abilene Kansas to get cash money so Travis has to become the man of the house while he is gone. Now Travis has to take on more responsibilities such as taking care of Arliss and Mama. __Missing Meat-__ When Travis goes in the dog run he notices that their meat is missing and knows that the big Yeller dog ate it. Travis is furious and tries to hit him but Arliss wants the dog and won’t let Travis harm him. Mama lets Arliss keep the dog because Arliss is lonely and needs companionship. __Proud Man__- Because Old Yeller ate the last of the meat, Travis has to go hunting. He sees a doe but scares it when he laughs at some squirrels fighting. Even though the doe was running away, Travis was able to kill it; after that he felt like a real man and was very proud of himself. __A Fight to See-__ Travis is excited when he gets to watch two bulls fight; the fight is entertaining for the Coates. It gets dangerous when the bulls demolish their fence and almost trample Travis, but the fight ends in a funny way. __Old Yeller to the Rescue-__ Arliss always liked collecting critters, and this time he found himself a bear cub. The mother bear wasn’t going to let him take her cub, and probably would have killed Arliss if it hadn’t been for Old Yeller. He charged at the bear several times and Arliss was able to get away unharmed. __Salt Licks Thief-__ Bud Searcy and his granddaughter, Lisbeth, comes to check on the Coates family and warns them that someone is stealing meat, eggs, and even bread. When Lisbeth and Travis are alone, she tells him that it has been Old Yeller that was stealing the food. But she tells him, that she won’t tell because her dog, Miss Prissy, is having Old Yellers pups. __Coons Causing Trouble-__ Coons were eating corn in the Coates’s field, but when Travis got the help of Old Yeller they were able to chase the coons away. Even though they had to stay up and barely got any sleep, Travis and Old Yeller really got to bond. __Burn Sanderson Claims Old Yeller__- A man named Burn Sanderson comes to get Old Yeller, but when he realizes how much he means to the Coates he makes them a deal. If Mama makes him a good meal they can keep the dog, and of course they accept. __Pig Notching-__ The sows gave birth to their shoats and now the baby pigs have to be notched. Old Yeller finds the pigs and Travis climbs a tree, catches the shoats, and cuts an overbit and underslope in their ears. Both Old Yeller and Travis were able to notch the pigs safely. __Dangerous Hogs-__ Travis is told that there are more hogs to notch so he goes to the bat cave in search of them. When Travis gets there, he realizes there are no trees nearby, so he gets on a dirt cliff, and uses his rope to catch the shoats below. He safely notches one but soon after the cliff collapses and he falls down onto the hogs. They cut his leg badly and severely tear open Old Yeller’s underside.

__A Long Trip Home__- Travis limps back home to get Mama but has to leave Old Yeller behind so his wound won’t get any worse when he walks. Mama, Travis and Arliss, ride the mule, Jumper, back to Old Yeller and are worried that he is dead. They put Old Yeller on a hide and gently drag him behind the mule and it takes a long time. When they got home the stars were out but all of them were relieved Old Yeller was alive. __Unwanted Pup-__ Lisbeth and Bud Searcy come to the Coates house with one of Miss Prissy’s speckled pups. She wants to give the “best puppy” to Travis but he doesn’t want it. He doesn’t want any new puppy to come between his relationship with Old Yeller so he gives it to Arliss. That hurts Lisbeth’s feelings and after Travis thinks about it, he realizes he was rude to her. He was hoping he could see her again and apologize and he probably will because Lisbeth is staying with the Coates to help Mama while Travis and Old Yeller are wounded. __Strange Cow-__ The Coates’s cow is acting very strange; it’s staying out all night, letting her calf go hungry and even made fight at Mama. They know that she has hydrophobia. It worries them even more when a bull with hydrophobia comes towards Arliss and Lisbeth near the spring. The bull causes no harm and Travis shoots it in between the eyes. __Burning Bull-__ Once Travis killed the bull they had to burn it because in a few days the smell of rotting flesh would be very strong. They also didn’t want buzzards and other varmints to eat it; that would continue the spreading of hydrophobia. Travis also has to drive Spot, which was very hard to do, away from the cabin so they can kill and burn her. When Travis gets back his leg is sore so Mama, Lisbeth, and Old Yeller go out to burn Spot. After they are gone for a while Travis gets a bit worried that something went wrong. __Wolf Wound__- Travis is just about to go look for Mama and Lisbeth when he suddenly hears the yells of Old Yeller and Mama shouting for him to make a light and get his gun. When Mama and Lisbeth were burning the cow a big, sick, loafer wolf had tried to attack them; Old Yeller fought him off. He shoots the wolf but because the wolf had hydrophobia and bit Old Yeller, so he might have it too. Travis turns numb all over, calls Old Yeller, and shoots him in the head. __Speckled Pup Heals Heart__- Papa is finally home and brings cash money and a great horse for Travis, but he really misses his Old Yeller dog. Travis is very sad for a while but then he sees the speckled pup steal some of Mama’s cornbread and realizes how similar he is to Old Yeller. The next day he turns his horse in and takes Arliss and the speckled pup squirrel hunting. He thinks that if the pup is big enough to act like Old Yeller he is old enough to “earn his keep.”