Whelp...the point until which i have read up to is where billy and his dogs are hunting after a really big storm hit their part of the country. That night billys mom didnt want Billy to go hunting cause the snow covered all the ice and it was going to be very slippery and she didnt want billy to get hurt.

but when billy went hunting that night he never expected what was going to happen.

when billys dogs got onto the trail of a big river coon

the coon got scared when he heard the dogs coming and he took off running and tried to jump the river well it just so happens that the river was frozen on both ends but was not froze in the middle