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dollar a-piece, and the bodies about half the price, 

 as Old Tom, the negro, told me, who valued every- 

 thing by shillings and pence. I thought we had 

 done enough, and expected that we should return 

 home, but so thought not Mr. Danielson. " We 

 have done very well, so far," said he ; " so on we 

 go." The dogs had gone on in advance, and were 

 not long before they started another raccoon, who 

 hastened to climb up a tulip tree close by. We 

 were soon on his heels, and all the dogs, seated 

 around the tree, were barking as hard as they could. 

 Tom and the two sons of Mr. Danielson set to work 

 at once with their axes on the trunk of the tree, 

 and the splinters of the wood flew about so as 

 almost to blind me. Happily, I escaped with the 

 fright and with the loss of one of the glasses of my 

 spectacles. At last the tree began to give way, and 

 it toppled over with a tremendous noise. By St, 

 Hubert ! it was not onl}' one raccoon that was hidden 

 in the branches, there were three. One of them 

 did not wait for the fall of the tree, but leapt off; 

 the others took refuge in the trunk, where the dogs 

 pounced upon them at once. Mr. Danielson and I 

 gave chase to one of the dogs, who pounced at once 

 at full cry on the track of the fugitive. This was an. 

 old raccoon, who had plenty of dodges, so our chase 

 was a long one. However, 1 had the good luck to 

 see him in an opening of the wood, chanced a snap 

 shot, and hit him in the head. He turned over 



