The Red Pony: Criss Cross

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Across

  • 3. Billy Buck is the ranch's single employed ___.
  • 5. Billy spends a lot of time teaching Jody how to take care of ___.
  • 6. Carl gives Jody a red pony, which Jody names ___.
  • 8. Jody's maternal ___ sends a letter to say that he is coming to visit.
  • 12. Just as Jody is about to teach Gabilan to ride, the horse catches a bad ___ in the rain.

Down

  • 1. Jody's grandfather wonders if it was really worth it to cross the ___.
  • 2. Each story is about a boy named ___, showing him at a critical time in his life.
  • 4. Gitano stays for one night, and then rides off into the ___.
  • 7. An old ___ man named Gitano appears, claiming that he was born on the ranch.
  • 9. The setting of all stories is Carl Tiflin's ___.
  • 10. The Red Pony is divided into ___ stories.
  • 11. During a complicated birth, Billy has to cut the ___ out of Nellie's stomach with his pocketknife.

Word Bank

four
jody
ranch
hand
horses
gabilan
cold
plains
colt
mexican
mountains
grandfather