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Spot is the Coates family’s spotted heifer. Spot has a stubborn personality that makes her a testy and difficult milk cow. Even though Travis finds Spot difficult and annoying to deal with sometimes, he has a great deal of affection for her and enjoys the process of slowly breaking her in and gaining her trust as he trains her to be milked each day. Travis is devastated when Spot begins showing signs of being infected with hydrophobia (rabies)—he knows deep down that she’ll never get well, yet he keeps her alive for a while and holds out hope that she’ll turn a corner. Soon, however, Spot grows “crazy mad” and becomes more aggressive than ever. Travis is forced to put his beloved milk cow down.
Spot Quotes in Old Yeller
The Old Yeller quotes below are all either spoken by Spot or refer to Spot. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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Now, I knew that Spot wouldn't get well, and this bull wouldn't, either. I knew they were both deathly sick with hydrophobia. Old Yeller had scented that sickness in this bull and somehow sensed how fearfully dangerous it was.
I thought of Lisbeth and Little Arliss down past the spring. I came up out of my chair, calling for Mama. "Mama!" I said. "Bring me my gun, Mama!"
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Chapter 14
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I went off to the spring after a bucket of fresh water and wondered when Papa would come back. Mama had said a couple of days ago that it was about that time, and I hoped so. […] This hydrophobia plague had me scared. I'd handled things pretty well until that came along. Of course, I'd gotten a pretty bad hog cut, but that could have happened to anybody, even a grown man. And I was about to get well of that. But if the sickness got more of our cattle, I wouldn't know what to do.
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Spot Quotes in Old Yeller
The Old Yeller quotes below are all either spoken by Spot or refer to Spot. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 13
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Now, I knew that Spot wouldn't get well, and this bull wouldn't, either. I knew they were both deathly sick with hydrophobia. Old Yeller had scented that sickness in this bull and somehow sensed how fearfully dangerous it was.
I thought of Lisbeth and Little Arliss down past the spring. I came up out of my chair, calling for Mama. "Mama!" I said. "Bring me my gun, Mama!"
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Chapter 14
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I went off to the spring after a bucket of fresh water and wondered when Papa would come back. Mama had said a couple of days ago that it was about that time, and I hoped so. […] This hydrophobia plague had me scared. I'd handled things pretty well until that came along. Of course, I'd gotten a pretty bad hog cut, but that could have happened to anybody, even a grown man. And I was about to get well of that. But if the sickness got more of our cattle, I wouldn't know what to do.
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