The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-09

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When spring opens lhe opens, and goes
out few see. how-lh chickens have wins
tered. E47f Ala IA GE0ge n
His life IL as. free from labor as new
penny, and if it wasn't for Ike dogs and
the rest of mankind, the racoon would
find what every body else haz-a heaven
upon earth sely 5-s
( Bat the dogs tree him and The men skin
him, and what there is loft ov him amt
worth cuss.
He Is not a nairal yagabund like the
hedgehog and the alligator, but luvs to b,
civilized and ike among folks bat he
has one vice that the smarteSi missionary
on Garth kau't Iedeem, and that IS The art
of stealing e-,ss .--.s...-
lie is second only TO the crow in petit
larceny, and will steal what he kant ear,
nor hide.
He will tip over a barrel OF apple sass
just for the FUN of inauling the sass with
his feet, and Will pull out tho plug oy tie
ny better than he duz young duck, but
jist tcw see if the mulassis has got "A good
daub to it
] have studied animal deviltry for i 8
years, bekausc the more detiitry's IN ar
animal, the more human he Is.
/ can't find, by sarciling the passenger
list, that Noah had a cpon on board, bi;
| am willing tew bet 10 pound ov muttoHs
sassage that mister coon, and his wits
com muted by stealing ride. 4-
never knu a rackcoon to want emmy
l IL, hot L,o. IL
Ennybody who has ever looked a coon
right square in the face, will bet you a
dolla: tlIat he is dead beat, or under
five hundredl dollars bond, not 10 90 into
the Dizziness, for the next ninety days.
hcv had tame coons by the dozen ;
/ they are as easy 10 tame as cl.iid, if you
4 take them young enuff, but kant advise
emmy body TO cultivate coons they want AS
/ mulch looking after as blind mule on a
! low path, and there amt any more profit
] in them than thar IL in a stock dividend
on the Erie Railroad
/ never was out of a pet annimal since
| kan remember, till now, but | hev gone
out of The trade for ever lately discov
/ cred that it was good deal ike making
! a whissel out of kats tale, running com
Portable tale, and reaping a kursid mean
wbis.cl.
Rackcoons liv to be G5 years old il
they miss the society of men and dogs
enutf, bat thare aint but few of them die
ov old age; The northwestern fur com
1 pany arethe great undcrtakers Of the coon
family. He
feel sorry for coons for with trihg
more brains, they would make respectable
/ petti>foggers before justice of the peace;
/ but even This would not save them from
perai-hcn. fr-
Natur don't make amy mistakes, after
all {; she hits the bull right in the eye ev-
cry time; when she wants rackcoon
with rings on his tale, she makes him,
and when she wants a Peity>fogger, she
knows how 10 make him, without spelling
a good coon. ..a
Petty-foggers, no doubt, have destiny
few fill, ana they may enable jusIiss OF
! The peace, in a cloudy day, tew know a
! good deal less of the law than he other
wise would still, for all this, If / was
obliged tew pray for one, or the other,
/ think now ! shonld say, "Give US leetle
more coon, and a good deal less petIyfog-
GER
If the Racoon would only Civ his whole
at;enshun TO pViilicks, thar amt but few
could beat him; hes at home on the
stump, and menny ov Us, oil c3oQs, kan
reckoiect how, in 1910, with nothing bur
hard cider diet, he swept the country,
from the north to the south pole, like \
cargo of epson psalts ~