Where the Red Fern Grows Crossword Puzzle

Across

3. "Thanks, --- -------, more than you'll ever know. I'll always take care of you."

5. This character says, "Good-bye and good hunting!"

13. This is where Billy goes to pick up his dogs.

14. Billy's last name.

15. This man's dog takes second place in the beauty pageant.

16. The name of the school Billy passes in town.

17. This character reports that Billy's dogs are frozen solid...and then says no, they're not dead.

20. Billy lives in the ------.

21. "There were no strangers to him. He loved everyone."

22. "He had the meanest disposition of any boy I had ever known."

23. This is the kind of can Billy kept his money in.

Down

1. The family cat.

2. This character says, "I don't want you children to grow up without an education, not even...seeing the inside of a schoolhouse."

4. This is the person who owns the house where they have the "hair cuttings".

6. "He had lived here a long time, and more than one hunter had listened to the voices of his hounds bawling on his trail."

7. The bet.

8. This is the kind of tree Billy chops down.

9. A taunt the other boys and girls call at Billy.

10. "You can swim the river, -------------, and play your tricks one by one. It won't do you any good, --------------, My Little Ann knows every one."

11. What the marshal buys Billy.

12. This character dies, fallen on an ax.

18. This character is on a long journey.

19. This character says that every boy should chop down a tree once in his life.