Billy's grandfather entered his hounds in a hunting championship.The other competitors are all adults with expensive gear and nice hounds. Little Ann wins the beauty contest on the first day. The other hunters are nice to Billy. Dan and Ann tree 3 coons adn qualify for the finals. When the night of the finals comes, the dogs tree their first coon quickly. Then a blizzard comes while they're chasing their second coon. When they all rush to the sound of the dogs they realize Billy's grandpa is missing. They find him with a twisted ankle unconscious. He wakes up and tells Billy to chop down the tree and get the coon. When he does, three coons jump out. The dogs kill two and one gets away. They go after it and when they find the dogs they treed their fourth coon. This wins them the championship and Billy wins 300 dollars. One night the dogs treed a mountain lion. They fought for a while but when Billy tried to save his dogs, the mountain lion knocked him to the ground. When it was about to pounce, his dogs jumped and saved him. Billy hit the lion in his ax in the back and it eventually died with both dogs attached to it's jugular. Little Ann only had a hurt shoulder but Dan was hurt all over. As they were heading back his entrails got caught on a root. Billy pushes them back into his body. They try to save him but Dan dies.
I think a great sequel would be set in the future in the same time period as the book started. Billy would be an adult. Right after he finishes telling the story it reminds him of how much he loved his dogs. He wants to get that feeling back and has a lot of free time so he decided he wants to get hunting dogs again. The sequel is centered around him raising his dogs and noticing they share a lot of the same characteristics of his old dogs. I would like this to have a happier ending however. I will comment on Matthew Mau and Sam Gressitt's blog
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Samuel Gressitt
3/6/2018 11:05:55 am
Was this the sequel? sounds like an interesting ending.
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