The sun., 1896-10-25

early morning, finds that half dozen shocks
OF corn nave been torn down. hung about he
not need TO ask II a party OF elves had hust-
Ing bee there the previous evening. He COM
eoons put up the s'Gnfs na. % y S and
festive, daredevil job. SO he goes coon hunt
ing on the following night.
in broad daylight, hence exceptional was .he
expssrienne dsn day or two aGo Of William 4.
breezy old town OF North Stonington, who
S,is SrSsH "bn GIaETeI couple OF h.ayy s S9ons
island BordeT similar nII r"r stroRe OF of0 fortune
also befel Messrs Guilds, A.. @. Booth. Wei
come Wheeler and William Fem OF shelton.
SQUIRRELS and two partridges, and handsomely
topper SoIoro. tne string Of game with couple OF
of the season has been done BY the veteran
William Bitgood of Campbrll's Mills, who,
tUn WITH e ms experienced I dog. has taken seven
the trail. prime coonsktn fetches i fair
price In the market. the best being, worth a
of his barn with coon pelts and fanries he
VIII pc able to paste as many more On the
Charles A. Pendleton Of wauwecus Hill,
three miles to the west of this town. the other
plight plight wormed large coon out OF a crack In
the door OF tn, white-painted church in tho
village OF Leifingwell. Not infre9uently some
into the outsErts OF tbs city, and and then
lambleS nnconcernedly into somebt dy's ornate
chicker house on stately Broadway or Wash
inRton ing street: And there's fun then, allow
Chase and w. Donohue had great luck at
Derby. n night or two ago. breaking the sea-
sons record with bag Of six coons taken in
a single hunt. The biggest fellow was an
and % served the coons in mammoth stew u
the members of u local political club. There
were music ana speechmakipR. with toasts.
at the coon feast. Orrin L. Harris one night
this week bngged a coon and her entire family
OF IN . children in ths Ledyard woods.
Az 10 clock the other night, four men, with
four coon dogs. slipped out of the anGient vii
lage OF Old Windham. among the Wtndham
county hills, AMI into the dusky woods. For
two hours they travelled. pushing, forward
aimlessiy, while the stiffness OF the forest
was nnbroken even bv le hooting OF an owl.
Finally Old Dan, the noble leader Of the pack,
who was well In the van. gave voice. and every
one -an a mile. The coon. an old ons. was
snon Mondcrait. First. he dashed mo- swamp,
where his cold footprints grew colder yet: next,
he ran twenty rods In II running stream. to
wash out his tell tale trail entirely. but Old
pegSed right along. true to the trac K. and never
dropned stitch in the groundwork pattern he
was tlrelessly knitting. Al length. the game.
suddenly abandoning his willy tactics. climbe
oak. Old Dan halted at the root OF the tres;
he could pursue his knitting no further: SO
he howled. But one of the coon hun ers there
upon picked up Dams dropped pattern and
quickly ran II up the tree. Hut ere the climber
had reached its middle branches the coon. who
had wariy scanned his approach. suddenly
Naulted plumb fro II the very top OF the oak to
the ground. He struck in the middle o. n
three-ply tanEle of coon dogs. and there
an explosion. variegated momentarily with
flying TUFTS OF hair and fur, and presently the
coon was no more.