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The old chestnut tree had been split at 
a big fork by a storm; one half of it 
hung down at an angle of about forty- 
five degrees, with the top branches rest- 
ing on the ground. The dogs were 
making a great effort to scale the trunk 
of the tree, but the branches kept it 
suspended in the air. We began to 
search the tree with our flashlight, and 
when the light struck the upper end we 
got the shine of two small, red eyes. 
We had always made it our policy to 
play safe and find out afterward, and 
something 
fell. We found it to be one of the larg- 
est mink we had ever caught or seen. 
NE night the dogs treed a ’coon in 
a tall tree; we located the shine of 
his eyes far up in the top. We imme- 
diately brought the old shotgun into 
play. After shooting at him eight or 
ten times, we could not locate his eyes 
again, but knew he was not in a den, 
for we could hear the blood falling. We 
were expecting him to fall from the 
wounds, and did not notice the time un- 
til daybreak. Just as we were going 
to shoot him he started to back down 
the tree, and came down to where the 
dogs could reach him, and was soon 
killed. 
We were still wondering why we had 
been unable to locate his eyes, and upon 
examining him we were very sorry to 
find that he had been suffering all that 
time with both of his eyes shot out. 
He was an unusually large ’coon, and 
when we skinned him we found his skin 
sticking full of shot. He was so old 
and tough that the shot did not go 
through the skin. 
There was a big crevice in the rocks 
about a fourth of a mile from the cabin 
into which nearly every night the dogs 
would drive some fast-running animal, 
but they could never tree it. We de- 
cided it was a mink or an otter. This 
same thing had happened every year 
that we had made the trip. 
In our last night’s hunt we were 
caught in a severe storm and took shel- 
ter under a cave for several hours. 
During our stay in the cave our lan- 
tern was accidentally knocked over, and 
the globe smashed. Although the storm 
passed over, it was very dark, and when 
we started home at four o’clock, it was 
necessary to. use the flashlight. 
were approaching the cabin when Bibby 
started to drive a red hot trail toward 
the crevice. Thinking that the usual 
thing would happen, and the crevice 
animal would again reach its lair, we sat 
down on a log to wait. After break- 
ing our lantern we had used the flash- 
light to get home and the battery was 
exhausted. In a few minutes old Bibby 
set up the glorious tree bark. Remem- 
ber, we had no light, and it was darker 
than pitch. We tore through the brush 
and briars in the direction of the crevice 
with the intention of so blocking it, 
that if the old-timer proved to be too 
much for Bibby, we stood a chance of 
treeing it again and waiting for day- 
light. 
After we blocked the crevice we went 
to the tree and found Bibby barking 
up a leaning sycamore that ran out 
over the creek where the water was 
three or four feet deeep. We had de- 
cided to wait for daylight, but as we 
reached the tree we heard an awful 
splash in the water: the ’coon had 
jumped in the creek. Bibby plunged in 
after him and started a terrible fight. 
The outcome depended on Bibby alone, 
because we had left the young dog at 
the cabin with an injured foot. 
We could see by lighting matches 
that first the ’coon was under the wa- 
ter, then the dog. They finally crossed 
to the other side and the ’coon man- 
aged to get out on the bank. Bibby 
was right out after him and tackled 
him on the open ground. By the time 
we had crossed the creek they had 
worked up into a thicket so dark that 
we could not tell which was the ’coon 
and which was the dog. 
HE fight went on fast and furiously, 
and all we could do was to wait 
for daylight, or for the combat to move 
out where we could determine which 
was which. 
We had used all of our matches 
watching the struggle in the creek. The 
rounds were getting shorter and far- 
ther between. We could hear the dog 
and ’coon panting and hear their hearts 
pounding, but could not tell them apart. 
They finally moved out of the thicket 
just as a faint light appeared in the 
east, and as they arose for the next 
round we were able to detect the ’coon 
when he stood up on his hind feet. 
Though we were right in the edge of 
a woods, there wasn’t a club to be 
found, and we had left our axe back 
at the cabin. Finally Sam tore a rail 
from a nearby fence, and after break- 
We 
an, 
ing it in two, put his one hundred and — 
ninety pounds behind a swing, and the 
‘coon went down for the count, with his 
neck broken. 
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