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come up and start to bark. One of the boys says 

 there might be a 'coon up that tree but I doubt 

 it. Well, I said, when four good 'coon dogs 

 bark up a tree at the same time, there is liable 

 to be something up there, so up went one of the 

 boys and down came Mr. 'Coon. We got him 

 and the dogs were not long in starting another 

 trail. 



They started south but it was a cold one, 

 but they struck right after Mr. 'Coon, and I 

 guess they must have taken us a mile and a half 

 on that trail to another patch of timber, and wo 

 were about a half a mile behind them when they 

 barked treed. They had ^Ir. 'Coon up a tall 

 red oak. We shot him out and soon had another 

 trail going. They took this one south, and it 

 was a warm one, right out into a corn field, and 

 they caught him on the ground. We could hear 

 the fracas and went to them as quick as pos- 

 sible, but we were not quick enough for they had 

 killed Mr. 'Coon and we met them coming back. 

 We went to where we thought they were when 

 they caught the 'coon but Ave did not find the 

 right place for we did not find that coon. 



The dogs soon had another trail going and 

 gave us some fine music for a little while and 

 barked treed. We went to them and they had 

 two 'coons up. We shot them out, and they soon 

 had another one going south. It was getting 



