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Chapter 1: New Man of the House Travis was left to be the new man of the house when Papa left to go to Abilene. This was a big responsibility for Travis because he is only fourteen, but now he feels very important and is beginning to like it.  Chapter 2: Big Yeller Dog Arliss meets a “new friend”, a dog that they call Old Yeller. Even though Travis doesn’t like Old Yeller because he stole their meat, Arliss loves him! And eventually, Travis learns to deal with him and even starts to like him.

Chapter 3: Hunting at the Licks Travis is hunting at the Salt Licks and he killed a doe for meat. He almost lost her, though, because he laughed at two squirrels that were fighting in a tree, and that scared her away. But, he was able to shoot her on the run, and he could take the meat home for Mama and Arliss.

Chapter 4: The Longhorns In this chapter, there are two longhorns called Roany and Chongo that fight Outside the cabin. It almost destroyed Travis’s cabin and hurt him. Old Yeller wanted to get into the fight at first, but Travis wouldn’t have it! The chapter title makes you wonder what these longhorns did, and that would make you want to read more.

Chapter 5: The She Bear In this chapter, Arliss tries to catch a bear cub. Its mother (the she bear) was trying to protect her baby because she thought Little Arliss may hurt it. In doing this, she tried to attack Arliss to get her cub, but Old Yeller saved Arliss by fighting the she bear.

Chapter 6: Bud Searcy and the Salt Licks Thief Bud Searcy comes to visit the Coates in this chapter, and he tells them a story about when his uncle got hydrophobia. He said that he had to chain himself to a tree so he couldn’t get to attack his family. This scared Travis a bit, but it scared him so much more when Bud talked about the thief in Salt Licks that was stealing lots of meat. When Bud said this, Travis knew that it was Old Yeller that had been stealing the meat. He knew this when Bud Searcy’s granddaughter, Lisbeth, told him she saw Old Yeller stealing the meat. He was scared that they would catch Old Yeller and shoot him in a minute. This chapter title makes you wonder who the thief was and what they had stolen.

Chapter 7: Troublesome Coons The coons were stealing the crops, like watermelon, from the Coates’s fields. To try to stop them, Old Yeller and Travis slept outside on a cowhide in the fields so that they could fend off any animals coming to steal the crops. Although they were not able to sleep much, they saved lots of crops and Old Yeller and Travis were able to bond.

Chapter 8: Burn Sanderson and Hydrophobia <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Burn Sanderson came to the Coates’s home and told Travis to watch out for a hydrophobia plague. Because of this, Travis was scared, but the next day, he had mainly forgotten about it. Mr. Sanderson also came to claim Old Yeller, but he saw that Travis and Arliss loved and needed him, as Papa was gone. In exchange for letting them keep Old Yeller, Burn Sanderson wanted a good, home-cooked meal from Mama, and he got it!

<span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 9: Notching the Hogs <span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Travis and Old Yeller notched the hogs. Travis did this by getting up in a tree and hanging a rope down to get the hogs up to him. Old Yeller helped by running the hogs into the rope so Travis could get them up and make his mark on him, literally. The Coates’s mark was overbit the right and underslope the left.

<span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 10: Vicious Hogs <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Travis goes searching for the hogs that he hadn’t marked yet. He finds them and sets up to notch them with Old Yellers help. When he tries to notch them, however, the cliff he’s on collapses beneath him and he falls on the hogs. The hogs become vicious and attack Travis and Old Yeller, but old Yeller gets the worst of it. Old Yeller is very hurt, but Travis just got a cut from a shoat’s tush in the calf, which made it hard to walk. In order to get help, Travis has to leave Old Yeller and come back with help.

<span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 11: Bringing home Old Yeller <span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Travis brings mama to Old Yeller so that they can help him and take him home. They also get Arliss to come and help, but so that he would stay calm, they pretended it was just a game. Mama had to sew Old Yeller up so that he could make it home ok, but he was hurt pretty bad. He was bleeding all over and he had a slit in his stomach, but with everyone’s help, he gets home o.k.

<span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 12: Mama’s New Helper <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Lisbeth comes to help the Coates’, especially mama, because now hat Old Yeller and Travis are healing, mama has to do all the work. Also in this chapter, Lisbeth brought Travis a puppy from Miss Prissy’s litter. Travis didn’t seem too excited about having it, so Lisbeth was disappointed. But, she gave the pup to Arliss, and he <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">seemed to like it, which made her happy.

<span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 13: Pea Vine… or Hydrophobia? <span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Spot was acting really odd. She was bawling and walked in gigantic circles around the land, far enough that she couldn’t be seen but not too far to be heard. Travis thought that it may have been because she had eaten pea vine, but in reality, she had hydrophobia. Travis and Mama told themselves that cows didn’t get hydrophobia so that they could feel better, but eventually, Travis realized that he had just been lying to himself. Because of this, Travis realized that he would have to shoot her, as well as the other roan bull that had hydrophobia. The roan bull came close to the Coates’s cabin, and so did Spot, and they could have been very dangerous to the Coates’s if they bit them or contaminated their crops or water. Travis had to shoot the roan bull.

<span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 14: Burning the Bulls <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, Travis had to burn the roan bull that had hydrophobia and that he had shot. He had to burn it because if they would have let it sit, it would have started to smell terribly and it could have spread the sickness by leeching into the drinking water, or if other animals ate it, the Coates’s could end up eating them and getting it. Travis also realized that he could not just let Spot go with hydrophobia, so he had to follow her until they were on bare ground that was far from the cabin and shoot her. When they got back to the cabin, he sent Mama and Lisbeth to go burn her body. They had been gone for a while, so Travis started to get worried. <span style="color: green; font-family: 'century gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">

<span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 15: The Final Fight <span style="color: green; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In this chapter, you find out that while Mama and Lisbeth were gone trying to burn spot, Old Yeller go into a fight with a rabid wolf. They fought all the way back to the cabin, and when they got back, Mama called for Travis to get his gun and come quick. Travis ran outside with his gun, only to find Old Yeller fighting furiously with a wolf that had hydrophobia. Although Travis shot the wolf, it was not in enough time to save Old Yeller from getting bitten, and most likely contracting hydrophobia. Travis did not want Old Yeller to suffer from it, and Mama ordered him to shoot Old Yeller right away. Travis, with a feeling of numbness, called Old Yeller over and shot him in the head.

<span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Chapter 16: Papa’s Return <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Travis still felt very numb, like a dead man walking. He didn’t eat, sleep, or cry for days. <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">After some time, it rained and “washed away” the hydrophobia plague. Then, <span style="color: #215868; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Papa returned. Mama told him about what had happened with Old Yeller, and he congratulated Travis on being so grown-up and doing the right thing. At the end of this chapter, Travis starts to like Old Yeller and Miss Prissy’s pup, and he starts to notice some similarities between them. He decides that he would take him and Arliss squirrel hunting soon…