Another moment is the first coon he caught. He soon gets into a fight with some kids who were making fun of his dogs. Also, in town he runs into many kids who criticize his appearance and call him mean names because he doesn’t have a proper education and very clearly lives on a farm. While in town he finds a shop where he buys a pair of overalls for his dad and a few yards of cloth for his mother and sisters with leftover money he had because the dogs were marked down to $20 a dog, leaving him $10 leftover. Billy doesn’t want to wait a whole week, so he goes into town to get them early. Once he gets these dogs, he names them Old Dan and Little Ann.īilly’s grandfather buys the dogs for him, telling him they’ll arrive in a week from Kentucky.
While cleaning an old fishermen camp Billy finds an old magazine talking about selling redbone hounds for $25 each, as a result of this over two years he saves up $50 to buy two redbone hounds. When he told his father this, his father told him that hunting dogs were too expensive for them going for around $75 for two hounds. They were extremely poor, and Billy wanted two dogs of his own for hunting.
After this, Billy starts to tell us about his early life, and how he had a sick case of what he calls “puppy love.” Billy lived on a farm with his parents and his three sisters. After he feeds and bathes the dog he releases the dog back out onto his journey home.
He breaks up the dog fight and nurses the one being attacked. We meet him when he is an adult, coming back from work and running into a dog fight. Billy is heavily based off the early childhood of Wilson Rawls.
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