he knew nothing about. Yet even here, if 

 found young, he shows a strange fearlessness 

 si Jiftle Brother anc j even a rare confidence in man. Once, 

 m t ] ie ea . r ly summer, I found a young coon 

 at the foot of a ledge, looking up at a shelf 

 a few feet above his head and whimpering 

 because he could not get up. It was a sur- 

 prise to him, evidently, that his claws could 

 not make the same impression on the hard 

 rock that they did on the home tree in which 

 he was born. He made no objection 

 indeed, he seemed to take it as the most 

 natural thing in the world when I picked 

 him up and put him on the shelf that he 

 was whimpering about ; but in a moment, 

 like a baby, he wanted to get down again, 

 and again I ministered to his necessities. 

 When I went away he followed after me 

 whimpering, forgetting his own den and his 

 fellows in the ledge hard by, and was not 

 satisfied till I took him up, when he curled 

 down in the hollow of my arm and went to 

 sleep perfectly contented. 



Presently he waked up, cocking his ears 

 and twisting his head dog fashion at some 



