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Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows. Chapter VIII (8). Lantern. Cleaned my boots until they were as soft as a hummingbird’s nest. Grinding my ax. These wonderful thoughts made me feel just about as big as our old red mule.

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Where the Red Fern Grows

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  1. Where the Red Fern Grows Chapter VIII (8)

  2. Lantern

  3. Cleaned my boots until they were as soft as a hummingbird’s nest

  4. Grinding my ax

  5. These wonderful thoughts made me feel just about as big as our old red mule.

  6. Papa lit my lantern. He said, “I’d like to see a big coonskin on the smokehouse wall.”

  7. Big grinning Ozark moon, soft yellow glow, starlit heaven

  8. Every nerve in my body was drawn up as tight as a fiddle string.

  9. Tall sycamores gleamed like white streamers

  10. A prowling skunk

  11. A night hawk had found his supper.

  12. They were out on an old drift, sniffing around.

  13. She came out on a gravel bar…

  14. He came out of the river onto a sandbar. He sailed over the log jam.

  15. Large water oak

  16. Bear Lion

  17. Big Coon

  18. Sycamore (Giant of them all)

  19. Birch, Ash, Box Elder, and Water Oak

  20. My ax was sharp and the chips flew.My back felt like someone had pulled a plug out of one end of it and drained all the sap out.

  21. Lunch Bucket

  22. Her blue eyes got as big as a guinea’s egg

  23. “If that tree takes a notion to fall, it’ll mash you flatter than a tadpole’s tail.”

  24. Chapter 8 Vocabulary • 1. rodent – a small animal with large gnawing teeth • 2. riffle- water running over rocks • 3. guinea’s egg- egg belonging to a guinea • Why did Billy decide to cut down “the big sycamore tree” ?

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