258 IN BERKSHIRE FIELDS 



North we have never achieved the humorous, imagi- 

 native semi-personification of the 'coon which the 



Trees are the instinctive refuge of the 'coon 



negroes have imposed on the South, to make the 

 little creature doubly desirable. Certain it is, at 

 any rate, that the 'coons are still numerous in our 



