ENGLISH 290 Study Guide - Coon Hunting, The Coon
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Where the red fern grows is a story about a boy who craves a dog so badly. Billy, has a desire for two red-bone coon hunting hounds. One day, the boy actually gets a dog. He works long and hard, picking at berries and catching small animals with traps. He finds an ad for two coon hounds by an abandoned fishing area, in the ozark mountains where he lived. The ad stated that there were two dogs on sale for twenty dollars. Billy bought the dogs, knowing they would soon pay off. The coon dogs were pups at the time billy got them. Billy took them home from the dog lot. On the way home, the school children called billy a hillbilly and pulled his dogs ears. Billy fought with a few of the kids to defend his dogs. Then, billy went home and raised and showed the dogs how to hunt.
