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They found grandpa face down in the sleet. He sprung his ankle pretty bad. They built a fire and warmed him up. BIlly took the coon skins and hung over the fire to warm them up and wrapped papa's ankle up in them. The hounds took off again. It was starting to become day light. The other hunters from camp came and rescued them. After that they went and found the hounds, they stayed treed the whole night.

The storm was coming and they decided to give it more more try at treeing a coon. The storm had came and it was horrible. The dogs were far in the woods and Billy couldn't hear them anymore. Everyone else wanted to give up and turn back but billy. They looked everywhere then Little Ann finally came to them. She lead them to Old dan and he was treed. Looking back Grandpa was gone.

On the day of the last night to hunt people around the camp are putting money in a pot to make a bet on who will win. During the night's hunt as they turned loose it only took fifteen minutes and the first coon was treed. As the approached the second one a bad storm came upon him.

On there night to hunt they had to kill three coons to still be in the hunt! As the night was running out they only had two coons. As they got on the tract for the second one they had to cross a river and Grandpa got wet. When they reached the third one they made a fire for grandpa. With no time to spare the hounds treed the third coon and got a safe spot for the next night to hunt.

They were eating supper that night and they all went to bed. Billy was awaken by a owl and he thought he heard two which mean't bad luck. They woke up early next morning and got to the hunting grounds and set up camp. There were alot of people. Billy got intimidated by all the other dogs. He got a surprised when he found out he had to pick one of his dogs for a best looking hound contest. He ended up picking Little

Billy, Papa, and his grandpa all left for the big coon hunt. They got all the equipment ready the night before. The winner of this hunt gets a big trophy. They stop by a stream and get water, then back on the road. They stop at Bluebird Creek and set up the camp for the night.

Billy went to the Pritchards house to pay his respects. He hid on the hillside looking at his grave as Rubins mom came to his grave. After visiting his house he went to his grandpa's store to tell him the story

Rubin and Billy started argueing and then they heard noise near them. It was Rubin's dog. Billy's dogs got in a fight with his dog. Both Little Ann and Old Dan jumped on him, they tore the old Bluetick up. Rubin grabbed Billy's ax and went for the dogs. Rubins foot got caught up in a bush and tripped and fell on the ax.

Billys dog were so called treed. Billy climbed up the tree and didn't see the coon. He thought he lost so he paid the two dollars. As the wind was blowing his dogs picked up the scent and his dogs were back on the trail. His dogs ended up treeing it. Billy climbed the tree to get it down for his dogs but he couldn't kill it.

Billy and the Pritchard boys have a bet and they are in the middle of it. The bet was Billy's dogs couldn't tree a coon they called a ghost coon. Little Ann and Old Dan are on a hot track!