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spoke again and down came 'coon No. 2. The 

 other fellows did not have such good luck, as 

 their coon got into the coal entry. 



We then started on and the dogs caught 

 another trail and gave us some music for about 

 twenty minutes. When they barked treed we 

 went over to them and there were six of the dogs 

 barking up a. bush}^ oak and the lone dog was 

 barking about eighty rods west of there. One of 

 the boys started up the tree and got only part 

 way up when out jumps Mr. 'Coon. The dogs all 

 went for him and out comes another 'coon and 

 into the corn field he went just about at the top 

 of his speed, and I guess he had no slow orders 

 either by the way he was going the last time I 

 saw him. We got a couple of the dogs after the 

 runaway 'coon but he made a hole, so we then 

 went to the lone dog and he had one up. We 

 got that and started west. We had not gone far 

 when the dogs struck another trail and they 

 circled to the northwest of us, came around west 

 and south and turned east. Just across the hol- 

 low from us was a large tree that Mr. 'Coon 

 was trying to make but he couldn't get speed 

 enough to make it, so the dogs caught him as 

 he got to the bottom of the tree. 



The lone dog was with them on that chase. 

 We left our 'coon at a farmer's and started on. 

 The dogs struck another trail and that 'coon got 



