The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-09-25
CUNNING coon HUNTERS,
Aongrels that Nnd - Clever Plan OF Attack
In n Cornaeld.

SCRANTON. Sept. 24.-Some wonderfully cum
ming coon hunting has been done this month
by a pair OF moncrel dogs named Jack and
Ned on Farmer Homer L. Sisson's place In Fox
township. Tho dogs are two years and a half
old. and have always been on Mr.. Sisson's
farm. They are brothers.. and each weighs
about seventy pounds. On tho last night Of
August Mr.. Sisson heard tho dogs tussling
with something Just above the conGeld on q
hillside back Of his house. He watched them
In the dim moonlight. and in u few minutes
they stopped their racket and disappeared in
the corn. Mr.. Slsson strobe up to the fence.
the lower side Of the corn patch Juggling
a dead coon. Jack had the coon by the neck
and Ned had 1t by THO rump; and when they
got to the fence Ned let go and bounded over.
Jack hung on to the coon until Ned, stuck his
pose under the lower rail. and then he pushed
and pulled it under tho fence. Then Jack
jumped oyer. and the tive carried the c4Sn
killed. and when MIR. Sisson walked into the
woodshed they made, a great fuss over their
and Mr.. Sisson skinned it and tackled the hide
to the side OF the barn;
JACK and Ned Nsdiiii Wing on a' the chips in the wood
Ths coon Vas cold, and the d %n.I had ,Eov been .m
pelt they trotted to the kitchen and got their
d 2osaf had another pfs nss ye mHsninS IN coon in the
away as soon as they saw thelr, master tako
the dead animal by the tail. and when, break
fast was ready there we're three coon skins on
the side Of the barn in Q row.
his mind to see il he could find out how tho
dogs manaced to capture their game. u was
: 6saptitpl mGOnlight niGht' u ana II o SlssSn
A little after 8 he climbed up u maple tree that
stood in a field OF oat stuhble between tho
quarters OF an hour no saw nye coons steal from
the woods to the sornlield. there was no no
fence fsn% be- between Ter"h t M, c Sisso ana ha th % s st"So, View Sn Ut
the cornfeld and land below and above j.,
Mrs. slsson lot the dogs out at 10 clock.
o oreh .@dm toWsrs ,h sse sSr ssS%R0'MsT rs .T si.ssn ioie
lowed them. and when they had got to the
sIp|Tad she tns al 81 tn the = G mihatd or ah t@o s siGs Sy s aha
They stood rs still as mice. and ~ OF a sud
den jack - wheeled and ran bn nck through M5 o sne
had left him. and Mrs. Sisson couldn't make
out where Jack had gone to until she saw Se %
tie tao. corn 'p psteh. ana q %0 io"kinE' that way she saw
jack stealing up the hillside toward the
woods. Ned was auiyerinE, with excitement;
stubblo near the edge OF tho timber he crept
toward tho fence as still asa cat. Jack stopped
fash Ned. as though Jack had given him u
20 racing and yelpinc Ike wiidhre among inc
The instant Ned began to bark and %ransack
tho. cornfield Jack cantered down near the
first row and crouched in the stubble. Neis
noise sent six tat coons scurryinE through tho
corn toward the woods for dear life. and from
his seat in the tree Mr. Sisson saw Jack tackle
tho second ono that came out. The plucky
dog, threw the coon over u stump, ut tho first
shake: and the coon got up and started FOR
tho timber before Jack could run around
the stump. Jack, caught the coon by
the, back before 1t had gone ton yards
and the, coon turned, on him and was
giving him more than no had bar;
yelplng out OF the corn 70 Jacks assistance.
At the first lungo no set his teeth in the coon's
back, yanked Il away from Jack. threw It ten
struck the ground. and shook it t., death be-
hold in its hide; Then Jack and Ned picked
Mr.. Sisson backed down the tree. well pleased
Wit tho sport. The dogs had tho coon in the
woodshed when he reached the house.
Two nights afterward the cunning dogs got
another coon in the same way. Ned went to
the stubblo and lay In wait that night. and
Jack ransacke ed the cornileld and routed the
coons. out. Ned shook the life out of u 20
pound coon before Jack Joined him. and Jack
helped his brother lug the game down TO the
shcd. Before tho middle OF the month tho
dogs slaughtered nine coons, and since than.
although they have hunted every night. they
haven't been able to find q coon. and Mr..
siss9n thinks that thsy have killed every one
on the farm.