Travis was only fourteen, but he was proud of his new role as man of the family and determined to live up to his responsibility. The only thing they and the rest of the settlers lacked that year in the late 1860’s was cash, so the men decided to get together and drive all the cattle up to the new market in Abilene, Kansas, more than six hundred miles away. It wasn’t an easy life, but they had a snug cabin that Pa had built himself, and they had their own hogs and their own cattle, and they grew most of what else they needed. Pa and Ma and Travis and Arliss lived on Birdsong Creek in the Texas hill country. Then he got into the spring water with five-year-old Arliss, Travis took an easy hate to Old Yeller, as they started to call him in fact, he would have driven him off or killed him if it hadn’t been for brother Arliss’ loud and violent protests, So Yeller stayed, and Travis soon found he couldn’t have got along without him. The big, ugly, yellow dog showed up out of nowhere one night and stole a whole side of hanging pork, and when Travis went for him the next morning that dog started yelling like a baby before he was touched. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller to read this eloIquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.

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