Tucket's Travels

Why did Lottie sometimes drive Francis over the edge?

• She loved to talk and explain every detail of everything she talked about.

• She walked slowly and stopped to examine every plant and bug along the way.

• She was very smart, and she felt she had to let everyone know it.

• She was afraid of everything and passed her anxiety onto Billy.

What did Lottie spot on the horizon?

• a little cabin

• a stand of trees

• a covered wagon

• smoke from a campfire

After seeing the dust plume, Francis figured that ------.

• a sheriff's posse was chasing after the Comancheros

• Grimes was on his way back to rescue the children

• he and the children would be safe as soon as the sun went down

• the riders would likely find him and the children in three hours

Francis smiled when he realized there was a good chance the -----.

• wind would destroy his and the children's tracks

• small fire would create a distraction

• Comancheros had followed the false trail he had left

• wolves would keep the men from following him and the children

Francis felt excruciating pain when -------.

• the wolf bit his hand

• the hailstones beat down on his legs

• lightning hit the tree he was crouched under

• a boulder rolled onto his foot