Chapters 5 and 6 Summary

Hattie's letters to Uncle Holt and to Charlie continue as she humorously describes her new home and surroundings, and riding by on his way to Vida, Rooster Jim offers to mail them for her. She begins to settle into a routine of sorts, feeding the animals first, and soon learns their quirks and quarks, discovering that Plug is as gentle a soul as Violet is ornery. It is a daily challenge to milk her without injury or loss of milk. One morning she turns them out but is alerted to a new danger by Mr. Whiskers. She spies the wolf stalking Violet and runs to her aid without thinking of anything past the necessity of saving her milk giving cow. She manages to scare the wolf off by lobbing stones at it, but not before it takes a good chunk of...