The Case of the Hooking Bull by John R. Erickson

You probably know how much your average cowboy enjoys repairing fence in the heat of summer. Slim and Loper had run him out of the pasture three or four times, but he kept coming back and destroying fences.

This bull belonged to the neighbors, see, and he’d been tearing down gates and fences and causing a lot of trouble. I’d hate to scare the kids too badly too soon.

Maybe I should have been, because before the day was over, that monster of a bull would. Perhaps I had a few matters of business on my mind, but not many, and for sure I wasn’t thinking about the Huge Horrible Hooking Bull in the north pasture. Let us say that I was in a light doze, listening to Drover grunt, wheeze, and snore in his sleep. There’s no telling who or what might come onto the ranch and do who-knows-what. Very seldom do I indulge myself in 100 percent sleep because. Drover and I were asleep on our gunnysack beds under the gas tanks, although I wasn’t entirely asleep. It started out to be a normal summertime day. ContentsĬhapter Four Running Scientific Tests on Strawberry Ice CreamĬhapter Six Attacked by the Couch MonsterĬhapter Seven We Meet the Horrible Hairy Hooking BullĬhapter Ten A Buzzard Falls Out of the SkyĬhapter Twelve Saved Just in the Nick of Time Chapter One: Watering the Shrubbery This book is dedicated to the cowboys I have known and ridden with over the years-the Jim Streeters, the Jake Parkers, and the Frankie McWhorters who have shared their wisdom and knowledge with me. Erickson.Įxcept in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Hank the Cowdog® is a registered trademark of John R. Subsequently published simultaneously by Viking Children’s Books and Puffin Books, members of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1999.Ĭurrently published by Maverick Books, Inc., 2013.Īll rights reserved Maverick Books, Inc. Irst published in the United States of America by Gulf Publishing Company, 1992.

The Case of the Hooking Bull by John R. Erickson