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| I would _______ the storm. |
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| It looked clean and neat and peaceful, _______ there in the foothills of the Ozarks. Yes, on that night I was proud of our home. |
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| The _______ voice of my father shook me from my trance. He said, 'Well, what have you got there?' |
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| With a ________ look on his face, he said, I'm afraid I don't understand. |
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| In a _____ voice my father said "Some day you may have to live in town." |
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| Boy, that's a ____ way of getting out of a fire," I said. |
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| With the _________ help of my sisters I made the little doghouse. |
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| I just couldn't catch the old _____ coons. |
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| He smiled as he listened to my tale of ___. |
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| Find a good solid log close by and ____ a hole down about six inches. |
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| The sharp ends of the nails will _____ into his paw and he's caught. |
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| "You know," he said, a coon has more than one __________ about him." |
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| My mother had an old _____. |
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| "It was one of those kind with a small hole in the lid for the ______." |
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| "I don't think your grandpa ____________ lied." |
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| "He dropped the harness, jumped over the rail fence, and in a long ____, started for me." |
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| "If you ever scare me like that again, I'll take a switch and wear you to a _______." |
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| "I didn't mean to be _____, but you did scare me. I thought a rattlesnake had bitten you." |
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| "You wouldn't think anything so small would be so _______." |
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| "I don't think this is very _____________." |
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| "Old Dan would get so eager and excited, he would _______ a trail." |
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| "I had a time with this part of their training, but my ___________ had no bounds." |
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| "He just lay there in the sunshine, all stretched out and ______ as a rag." |
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| "Sure they know Billy's going hunting," piped the little one, "and I know why." |
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| "I turned them loose, saying, "Go get em." They ________ for the timber." |
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| "The deep tones of Old Dan's voice ______ the silence around me." |
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| "The next trick the old fellow pulled was a _____." |
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| "Old Dan, with a __________ look on his face, stood for a moment looking after her." |
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| "Like a king in his own ______, it towered far above the other trees." |
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| "while taking a ________, I saw I was making more progress than I thought I would." |
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| "She _____on. You can't possibly cut it down today, and what are you going to do when it gets dark?" |
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| "He drove up with a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his ________ face." |
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| Grandpa laughed. "Speaking of meals," he said, "your ma is having chicken and _________ for supper. Now we don't want to miss so let's get busy." |
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| "There was that serious look on Grandpa's face. That was all it took. I was firmly _________." |
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| "We stuffed the loose ______ clothes with grass and leaves." |
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| Papa ________ from the porch, "Come on in. We've been waiting supper on you." |
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| "It's called the ____________ trick." he said. "He _________(ed) on his original trail." |
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| "Oh, he's there, Mama" I _______ replied. "I know he is." |
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| "I heard there was a ___ back in the New England states. Seems like everyone is going crazy over coonskin coats. Now if this is true, I look for the price of coon hides to take a jump." |
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| "Mama made me take a hot bath. Then she rubbed me all over with ________ that burned like fire and smelled like a civet cat." |
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| "Old Dan seemed to understand. He showed his ________ by muzzling me with his head." |
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| "Old Dan seemed to understand. He showed his sympathy by ________ me with his head." |
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| "I was trying to rewrap my hands so I could go back to work when I heard a low _______ sound." |
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| "With one final grinding, creaking sigh, the big sycamore started down. It picked up ________ as the heavy weight of the overbalanced top dove for the ground." |
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| "In its downward ______, the huge limbs stripped the branches from the smaller trees." |
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| "_______ with pain, she shook him off and he streaked for the river." |
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| "It was ______ and brutal." |
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| "It was savage and ______." |
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| "I thought of the hours I had ______ away staring at its beauty and hard it had been finding the right name for it." |
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| "Along about then I decided I was a __________ coon hunter." |
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| "I had a time with this part of their training, but my persistence had no ______." |
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