The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-08-21
A Chapter on COOns by Frontier.


as good as possum and later; but
Sam there are different kinds ol
) coons. Oar is de summer coon, he
gifts fat on corn and stay about the
water, [ calls Baptist coons, when
dey gifts the dog in deep water de
fight is splendid, I've had lots of
fun with de summer coons.
Den dere is defsH and winfereo
what gifts fat on persimmuns and
huckleberries ard muscadines and
acorns and pecans. When you
catch him you have fine eaten, but
Sam let me tell you, in the spring,
IL the May time of the year, when
dere ain. t 10 simmuns and berries
no grapes nor geen corn, you see
de coons is all poor and weak and
hungry for something to eat and
| dey comes around hunting for de
chickens. Dey is too weak for
good dog fight and too poor for to
eat. Yes de meanest coon of all is
the May coon, he amt fit for moth
ing but to catch a niggers chick
ems. Once upon a time there was
man in this county, where he
came from, l do not know. His
name was C. w. Macune, what c,
stood for in his name 1 do not
know, it may have been chicken,
what W stood for I do not know it
may have been wanter, Chicken
Wanter Macune. He clerked for
DR.. Fentress, think he was a good
clerk; after he quit clerking for
him he took a contract 10 paint
Bill Doran's house. He had to fur
nish the paint and oil he had no
money and had to get DR.. Fentress
to order them for him. He paint
ed Dorans house, got his hundred.
dollars, but forgot to pay Fentress
for the paint and oil. This reminds
me of what old Nose said; de mean
est coon of all is de may coon. he
amt fit for nothing but to cotch
nigger's chickens,--He boarded
with Jim Doflemyre and went
away forgetting to pay his board,
even borrowing Mrs, Doffiemyre's
baby carriage and forgetting to
to send it back. He never paid Ed
Campbell either, and this too re-
minds me Of what old Moses said
de meanest coon of all is the may
coon, he amt fit for nothing but
to catch a nigger's chickens. He
next hobs up as a DIR. and by some
means gets CONTROL of the Dallas
Exchange. The money was lost to
the farmer, the building was sold
on 4th of this month bringing 80
thousand when it cost IS thous-
and. Did TIE farmers get into Ma
cune's hen house and rob his roost |
or did he getinto their chicken pen
and rob them? From the amount
Of feathers sticking to his jaws
when he left 1 think he caught the
farmers chickens. Truly in the
language ofold Nose, de meanest
coon of all is de may coon, he amt
fit for nothing but to catch a mig
gers chickens. Wene find him |
in Georgia, selling out the farmers
to Calhoun, the railroad man for
1000 dollars, he says be borrowed |
it, l think it was chicken feathers
truly old Moses was right, de mean
est coon Of all is de may coon, he
amt fit for nothing but to catch
nigger's chickens He promises
at Waco, to oppose the Bird party |
movement yet he is found in Gin
cinnah as a DELEGATE from Texas
advocating the tlnrd party. He
appears at the national alliance
opposing every plank offered de-
nouncing a high protective tariff
and Hall Of Missouri he has evil
IDENTIFY sold out to the manufac-
turers who have HIM employed to
denounce all efforts to revise the |
tariff. He says in the Economist
that it is a hoary breeder of sec
tional strife. He now poses as
the advocate of the sub-treasury
scheme, hoping by it to weaken the
democratic party and allow the re-
publicans to succeed in the next
campaign and thus fasten upon US
the high protective system again,
and continue to fasten and increae
the gains Of the 1900 mill overs.
Well may the protected barons
feed him on chicken; they get the
chickens from the deluded farmers
who continually fozget the remarks
Of old Nose, de meanest coon of
all is de may coon, be amt fit for