Chapter+2

//Billy was 10 years old when he started to want dogs. He asked his father for some, and his father told him that Old Man Hatfield's collie was going to have puppies, but Billy wanted hunting hounds.// //Billy wanted the dogs because he himself was a hunter-one time he caught his cat.// //His cat, Samie, was very mean, and skittish afterwards, and ran away. Then Billy wanted to run away too, but his plan failed.//


 * __New Vocabulary:__**

Romp-play roughly and energetically Squall-a loud, harsh cry Pestering-to harass with petty annoyances; bother


 * __Figurative Language:__**

Simile: He swelled up like a sitting hen. pg. 13 Personification: Once I found a stick standing upright in one of my traps. pg. 13