A Cooii( ?) 
After dark a prolonged choking or gasping (or 
in the 
cornfield 
perhaps I should say vmining) cry came a number of times 
from the cornfield in front of the house. It suggested the 
wail of a Screech Owl but was louder and less tremulous. I 
attributed it to a Racoor^but this vms a mere guess for the 
sound was quite new to me, nor have I ever heaxd a Coon. 
Something is stealing our corn by wholesale, eating it on 
the cob without removing the ears from the stalks. 
A Screech Owl wailing near house at 10 P. M. Tree 
swing r'l 
Crickets in full song._^^_>i 
