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There was a very large dog fight.

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The dog that all of the other dogs were fighting was a red coon hound.

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Billy stopped the fight and took the dog home.

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Billy took care of the dog and then let it go.

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Billy reminisced about his childhood dogs and the good times that they had together, while looking at his trophies.

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The story flashes back to Billy's childhood.

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Billy starts talking about his "sickness," which is actually just dog-wanting.

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Billy's parents tell him that he cannot get dogs, because they do not have the money.

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Billy starts to lose weight and becomes very sad.

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Billy's dad offers to get him a collie, but he does not want anything other than a hunting dog.

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Mr. Colman decides to get him traps to ease the pain of dog-wanting.

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He continuously catches the cat, Sammie, in the traps.

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His dad is going to have him begin working in the fields with him.

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Billy finds a magazine at the fisherman's camp.

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In the magazine, Billy finds an add for red coon hounds for sale.

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Billy comes up with a plan to get the $50 for the dogs.

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Billy finds a K. C. Baking Powder can to start saving his money in.

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Billy begins to sell furs, vegetables, crayfish, berries, and worms.

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It took him two years to save up the money, he was thirteen when he earned enough.

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Billy takes money to his grandpa to help him order the dogs.

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Billy's grandpa had to write the kennels to see if they were still there.

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Billy's grandpa gets a letter in the mail saying the dogs are still there, and they were only $20.

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Billy and his grandpa filled out an order for the dogs.

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A few weeks later, he got a letter saying his dogs were there.

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Billy decides to walk to Tahlequah to pick up his dogs.

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Billy makes it to town.

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Billy sees his own reflection, and also sees many things he has never seen in the town.

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Billy decided to buy some cloth, candy, and overalls for his family.

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He sees a school for the first time.

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Billy gets bullied.

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Billy goes to the depot to pick up his dogs.

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Billy had a hard time going in, because he was overcome with emotions.

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He decides it is safe to go in when he sees the stationmaster being kind to a canary.

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The stationmaster takes billy to get his dogs, and lets them out.

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Billy is so overwhelmed by the sight of his dogs that he can't move.

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The dogs walk up to him, he picks them up, and cries into their fur from happiness.

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Billy carries his puppies in his gunny sack with the other things that he bought in town. The puppies have holes to poke their head out of.

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As billy is walking out of town some of the school boys walk up to him and start to mess with him. A fight breaks out, because one of the boys pulls the girl pup"s ear.

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The marshal broke up the fight, and buys Billy some soda for the first time in Billy's life.

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Billy leaves to head home, but must stop for the night.

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After he eats and starts a fire, they all go to sleep. Then, in the middle of the night a mountain lion tries to attack them.

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Boy Pup: He is brave, large, darker red, bulkier, stronger
Girl pup: small, short, runt, light red, much smarter than the male puppy

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While the mountain lion is attacking, the pups began to bark at the lion and try to protect Billy.

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Billy builds up the fire and makes a lot of noise all throughout the night, until the mountain lion leaves the next morning.