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Bonus Toon: “Cat Concerto”

After the American Civil War, a rebel soldier and his wife become pioneer
farmers in Florida. Their son Jody is 11 years old; he gets along well with
his warm and affectionate pa, but his ma is haunted by the death of her other
children, so she's somber, even cold. The boy wants a pet: the dad is
sympathetic, the mom obdurate. When a rattler bites pa, pa kills a doe to use
its organs to draw out the poison. Jody begs to keep the doe's fawn as a
pet. The parents agree, and the boy and the deer are soon inseparable. The
fawn grows quickly, and as a yearling tramples tobacco shoots and eats the
newly-sprouted corn. This is too much for ma, and Jody has to face harsh,
adult realities.