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Another considerable following, however, at 

 once take issue and present an array of argu- 

 ment in favor of the dog which keeps his silence 



Let us first consider the views of a con- 

 servative Pennsj^lvania brother, in favor of the 

 still trailer: I see a good many 'coon hunters 

 disagree on 'coon dogs, still trailers vs. tongue- 

 ing dogs. Now in m^' experience, I have used 

 nearly all kinds of 'coon dogs, some good ones 

 and some not so good. I think the difference is 

 in the kind of country to be hunted, for hunt- 

 ing in a very rough country that is cut up by 

 long hollows and large tracts of timber I prefer 

 a tongueing dog. 



For hunting in this locality where it is all 

 cut up into small fields with ])rincipally all rail 

 fences and timber in small blocks, mostly cut 

 over by lumbermen and nothing Irft but hollow 

 trees and brush, I prefer a still trailer by long 

 odds, as the noisy dog gives the 'qoon warning 

 as soon as he strikes the trail, then Mr. 'Coon 

 takes to the rail fence or a jungle of briers and 

 old tree tops and begins to get busy and is soon 

 in one of those hollow trees, where he is per- 

 fectly safe as far as I am concerned, for I never 

 cut doAvn any den trees. 



The still trailer does his work quietly and 

 is right on to the 'coon before it is aware that 



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