The story started out with Billy and he was an old man then. He was witnessing a dog fight and it was about ten dogs against one red bone hound. The dogs were no match for the hound because he was a hunting hound and he knew how to fight. One dog stormed in but the hound sliced his ear open and he ran off. Another dog ran in but only got his shoulder blade split open all the way to the bone. billy scared away all the dogs but after that fight the stories from his boy hood started to come back to him piece by piece. It was the story of Old Dan and Little Ann. His hunting dogs. Billy had raised the money to buy the hound pups. He had taught them how to hunt and all the tricks a ring tailed coon would pull on them. After a full year of having his dogs Billy's Grandfather had signed him up for a hunt and the winner of that hunt would get a gold cup. On the last night they had some complications and his Grandfather had sprained his ankle pretty bad. But through all that they won the hunt. Near the end of the story Billy's dogs got into a fight with a Mountain Lion. Little Ann had a huge gash on her shoulder but Old Dan was scratched up really badly. Billy's Mama tried all she could but Old Dan Later died. Little Ann couldn't live without Old Dan. She starved herself to death and died. After the death of his dogs his parents moved into town.