RECREATION. 



xxxvn 



A BUNCH OF COONS. 



One evening last fall, some of the boys 

 asked me to go on a coon hunt. They said 

 they had heard my dogs were good for that 

 work.. I thanked them for the compliment 

 to the dogs, and when they assured me I 

 was included in it I decided to go with 

 them. We had scarcely reached the woods 

 before old Shep, one of my foxhounds, 

 opened up. We found him barking up a 

 tree. He makes no noise when on a trail, 

 but when he trees a coon there is music. 

 We cut the tree down. As it struck the 

 ground, the coon jumped out and Shep 

 nailed him. 



About a mile farther South we reached 

 another body of woods. As we were cross- 

 ing the road, one of the dogs struck a trail. 

 We let them all go, and Shep soon opened 

 up again. We reached the tree, and by the 

 light of our torch, saw eyes shining. John 

 shot at them, but without result. He fired 

 again, with no better success. We went to 

 the other side of the tree, and John got a 

 clear view of a black bunch. As the third 

 shot rang out, 3 coons came down. One 

 was dead, the other 2 were wounded and 

 the dogs soon finished them.. 



We divided up the load and went across 

 into Snucker's woods, where the dogs 

 found more trouble. They soon ran a noc- 

 turnal marauder into a tree, which we as- 

 sailed with our axes. It fell into another 

 tree and lodged. We failed to get the coon, 

 but as we had 4 already, for 4 hours' work, 

 we were content. 



O. H. Lloyd, Berryville, O. 



When I became the owner of an old muz- 

 zle loader, about 8 gauge, I got some pow- 

 der, shot, paper and caps, and started on my 

 first squirrel hunt. After hunting 4 hours I 

 spied a red squirrel. I laid my gun down 

 and looked for a stick with which to knock 

 him out of the tree. I got one and started 

 for the tree, but could not see the squirrel. 

 I went back and picked up my gun and sat 

 down to wait for another sight of him, re- 

 solved to shoot him if I saw him. In a 

 minute the little fellow ran out of my gun 

 barrel with the charge in his mouth. It 

 wasn't much of a day for squirrels either. 

 My gun was an awful one to kick. She 

 would jump out of my hands to the ground 

 and kick for 15 minutes. But for all her 

 faults she was a good shooting gun. One 

 day my brother took a bushel of potatoes, 

 got up on top of the barn and poured them 

 down. I fired and put a shot in each one 

 of them before they touched the ground. 

 I wasn't feeling well that day either. 



W. H. Gordon, Kennebunk, Me. 



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