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You must remember that, at this point, you 

 are not training* your dog to fight. The object 

 is first to find Avliere the animal goes and second 

 to get your dog to ''bark up." Continue this 

 practice for some time ; then put your animal in 

 a larger tree out of sight but don't put in the 

 same tree each time, iifter you have your dog 

 trained so he will trail and bark up in the man- 

 ner just described, the chances are that he will 

 tree 'coon, if he gets a fresh trail. Of course, 

 he will not be a good 'coon dog at once; that 

 comes by experience. 



Xext to a good dog in the 'coon hunting 

 business, is a good gun and lantern. Don't try 

 to iiunt 'coon with a common open lantern. A 

 good kind cf lantern to find their eyes with is a 

 dark or police lantern, as you don't have to put 

 them on your head to find their eyes. But what- 

 ever kind you use, have one with a good bulls- 

 eye and a reflector. Use a good shot gun. I 

 generally use No. 2 shot. 



Having prepared ourselves with a good dog, 

 gun and lantern, we are now ready for business. 

 We will go out first on a cloudy night. We will 

 go into the woods and walk sIoavI^^, giving the 

 dog plenty of time to hunt and if we don't see 

 him pretty soon, we will sit down on a log and 

 wait a while. 



Don't go thru the woods as if some one were 



