Sounder, the heroic coon dog, was blessed with the neck and shoulders of a bulldog and the harmonious back of a noble hound dog. When he traps a coon high up in the canopy of a tree, his voice trembles through moods of the night and across the boundless flatlands, more vociferous than any dog’s in the entire countryside. Every night the mother of the family sits at the tin topped table and picks the kernels of walnuts to sell at the market. As the winter hunting gets poorer and poorer, Sounder’s master, a poor black sharecropper, is forced to steal a ham to nourish his starving family. When the sheriff comes to take the man away for a long sentence, on a chain gang, he is rude and disrespectful towards the man and his family. When So
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