where the red fern grows chapter 19

After the competition nothing had changed about hunting. One night they went hunting and the dogs got a trail, but as soon as they treed it, it would jump away. He thought it was a bobcat, and he knew that it wouldn't jump because it was tired. Once he got there Old Dan growled like he never heard, but when Billy looked up all the questions were answered. He saw two big yellow eyes, it was a mountain lion! A mountain lion was up in that tree and his dogs treed it.  There was a battle, as the lion jumped down to Old Dan he came up and collided. As the battle raged on, the dogs and lion got more bloody and more bloody. Once the battle was over he wrapped his dogs wounds and went home. Once he got home he woke his parents up and his parents washed the dogs wounds. They did Old Dan first then Little Ann, as she walked back to the dog house Old Dan put his head on Billy's lap and breathed his final breath the next day Billy buried his dog and carried on. When they found out that Little Ann wasn't eating he had to feed her the whole day,  in the evening when it was time to feed her she was nowhere in sight. Finally he found her body by the side of Old Dan's grave.