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- From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
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- Organization: gators 'r us
- Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
- References: <1992Nov13.185221.19455@igor.tamri.com>
- <1992Nov13.203158.17231@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- <1992Nov16.111939.17497@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:11:38 -0400
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- In <1992Nov16.111939.17497@husc3.harvard.edu>, Richard Joltes writes:
- >billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
-
- >I can't recall the movie's ending (although it was a Disney flick, so they
- >may well have sanitized it by removing the nasty bits) but the book ended with
- >Travis shooting Yeller in the corncrib because the dog had "hydrophobia" (aka
- >rabies) from his contact with the "big old loafer Wolf." However, the stranger
- >from earlier in the book (who gave Yeller to the family in exchange for dinner)
- >came back and gave them a new puppy to fill the void.
-
- the book ended with travis shooting an apparently healthy yeller, beacuse
- yeller had been mauled by a rabid wolf and was sure to get rabies himself.
- travis begged his mom to wait and see, and was told something like"don't be
- gross, we don't want to see poor yeller get rabid". so travis shot him anyway
- (sob).
-
- the movie ended with mom and travis deciding to wait and see, yeller going
- all nasty and almost killing travis' rotten kid brother arliss, who didn't
- understand why yeller was locked up and tried to release him, and *then*
- travis shooting yeller. rather than sanitising the book, disney added
- scenes of yeller being a nasty rabid would-be killer.
-
- the new puppy wasn't from yeller's former owner(in the book anyway, i forget
- how the movie went.) in the book he was given to travis by a neighbor girl,
- from a litter her bluetick had had which was sired by yeller. the pup
- in the movie looked something like old yeller and was called "young yeller".
- in the book he was a liver and white spotted houndy looking dog named
- "savage sam", the eponymous hero of the sequel, in which travis, arliss,
- and the neighbor girl were kinapped by indians and saved by sam.
-
-
- i recently reread the books, since i got a bluetick myself less than two years
- ago, and remembered a bluetick in the book. i've never seen the whole movie,
- but sometime in the last decade i saw the ending on tv while flipping channels.
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- -- little gator aka s. mudgett email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
- -- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
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