The grit in Billy’s mouth felt like a whole beach just washed into his mouth, skinning the salmon he knows that all his determination will be worth it. In time when he will have his own two hunting dogs. In the novel Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls expresses how Billy shows an enormous amount of determination especially for a kid of his age.
Billy worked for about 2 years he never gave up and pushed through his hardships. With only one goal in site he set out and was determined to get his coon dogs. Billy caught fish, went and collected berries, sold vegetables and fruits to fisherman down by the creek. By the end of the first year he had barely made $25 dollars, but that was half the amount he need that made him work even harder then he was. He worked and worked for 2 years to even get a chance at buying his dogs, but he was determined too.
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He trained them for weeks before he ever even set out the first night to go hunting. At sunset, Billy set out with Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy promised to his dogs that the first coon they treed he would chop it down. Eventually Billy’s dogs treed there first coon in one of the “biggest” trees in the Ozarks. He started to chip away, the tree with his axe by the morning his hands were bleeding and he had blisters all over his hands. He knew that he couldn’t let his dogs down he had promised them that he would cut down the tree that the dogs treed there first coon in. He was determined to cut it down, through sweat and blood he persisted and finally cut down the