Chapter 18 summary

They were sitting at the fire and heard a noise. Billy got up and heard men shouting trying to find them. All of them started shouting at each other and then the search party found them. But  the search party realized that one of their guys was missing. So they started shouting for him and he soon showed up. He said he saw something that looked like a ghost but it was  just Billy's dogs. They split up, some people stayed and made a sling to carry the grandpa back to camp, and the others went with Billy to find his dogs. When they found them the dogs were treed, they got the coon and went back to camp. Billy won the cup and over 300$ in cash. After this the grandpa was taken to town to get his ankle checked. While Billy and his father went home.