trapped opossum, squirrels and skunks. He picked up blackberries. A good hide would sell for
             25 cents and a bucket of berries for 10 cents. It took him one year to save twenty-seven dollars and
             forty-six cents. Billy worked another year and had his fifty dollars.
             He took the money to his grandfather who had a store and asked him to buy the coonhounds. Billy's
             grandpa loved Billy very much. He was very fair and hardworking. Billy waited for days. Then they
             got the message that the dogs were in depot in a near by town. Billy did not want to wait for a week
             when a neighbor went to town. He packed a bag and started walking. The town was 20 miles away
             and it took Billy all night to get there. He got the pups and walked back. On his way back he spent
             a night in a cave and was scared by a mountain lion. He stopped at the camping ground he had found
             the magazine. He saw two names carved on a tree: Dan and Ann and decided to name his dogs Old
             Billy wanted to train his pups to hunt coons but he needed to have a coonskin to train them. His
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