Where the Red Fern Grows Vocab. Ch. 13-16

to climb with hands and feet; to climb with difficulty

"I __________up and looked over to the fight."

causing sickness of the stomach

"A ______________ sickness spread over my body."

to thrust forward, to jut out

"Turning around, I saw his hands were curled around the ______blade as if he himself had tried to pull it from his stomach."

short coat of thick wool, usually plaid

"He was sitting humped over, with his hands jammed in his pockets of his patched and worn _______."

behaved in a silent, ill-humored manner, pouted, moped

"Yes, Mama,' I said, and _______ off to my room."

to speak or pronounce

"I was so surprised at what Grandpa had said I couldn't _____a word."

a dull, low, monotonous sound

"I stood and listened to the ____tones of his deep voice."

a soft muddy place, a swamp like place

"I didn't know for a long time,' I said 'until one day when I was hoeing corn down in the field by the old ______."

hesitated or wavered

"Regardless of all the discouraging talk, the love and belief I had in my little red hounds never _________."

to plunge into water or to splash with water

"We could tell they were coming back so we doused all the fires and, sure enough, they came right through the camp."