Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1881-05-04
Bill APPS Coon Hunt, and Some Re-
Elections Thereon.

L 1T boNS Sdlu IL WIS 100 wet 10
pillow, and they were going down on
the creek 10 hunt rabbits, so | con.
cluded to 90 along and tote the
game. Mrs. Arp she said she knew
we wouldn't kill any thing, and we
asked her if she would cook all we
brought home, and she said, "Ycs,
and dress il, too" About the time
we got started the two little chaps
came up and begged me so sweetly
to let them 60 couldn't refuse, and
So there were sin of MS IN all, and
two guns and two dogs, and in
about an hour We had jumped six
rabbits and killed five of them, and
they were getting awful heavy when
suddenly one of the boys looked up
an elm tree that was in the middle
of IA cancbIake and said, II thought
them things up there were squirrels
nests, but | do believe | say one of
'em move" We all stopped and
looked, and sure enough it did move,
and the other one moved. and we
knew they were coons. never saw
boys got excited 50 Guick. They
called the dog and made tor the
can"htakc. The creek WAS 10 cross
and nary log in sight, so they Just
walled through AID surrounded the
tree and held the dogs fast while
one of the boys got ready 10 fire.
BY this time | WAS getting ready to
be boy again myself. and ] hollcr-
ed To EN- 10 wait, and | pulled the
little chaps through the cane till |
] fnnud IL log and got them across
and was soon on the battle ground.
Bang went IA gun ami down came II
wounded coon, the biggest old fel
low ever saw, and never saw
such Il fight in my life. He wasn't
hurt much with the small shot, and
be did fight and growl and screech
mos amazin. FIRST one dog and
then the other backed out with a
howl and then set in on him again,
until finally old Zip surrendered and
gave up the ghost. Baug went an
other gun and the other coon let 20
and tell into fork, AMI there he
lay for dead for about fifteen min.
utcs, when one of the boys said he
was going to have him anyhow. SO
lie climbed the tree, and when he
had got about fifty feet up the coon
Strengthened up in the fork and
looked savagely at him and gave
a grovl. | wish You could have
seen that boy slide. He came down
that tree like a fireman comes down
a scaling ladder. He left his hat
aud right smart of his breeches on
the bark and grape vines. Well, of
course they shot him again, and
that tumbled him. and then we had
another fight, and the boys say they
never had as much fun, and they
feel sorry for yonr town boys who
don't have any sport and are penn.
ed up within brick walls, and the
best they can do is to waste a few
dollars on a French actress, and not
know "a word she said, and then 90
home and say bully for Sara. Well,
| shouldered the biggest coon, and
! think be weighed about twenty
pounds when we started and about
forty when got home, and laid
him down suddenly in Mrs. Apps
lap and said, "Skin him and cook
him, if you please" l oughtent to
have done that. 1t was premature,
and not altogether calculated to
promote our conjugal felicity. Mrs.
Arpis stately, delicate woman,
but l think she got up a little quick
er than | had ever observed her.
She thought it was a bear, or a by
ena, or a catamount, and she scream
al oocnrfl;uoltr Al fhat wao Loot