A thousand rubles and an old coon-skin overcoat.

He would lie by the hour murmuring a boy's woods lore to Gray Stoddard, communicating deep secrets of where a bee tree might be found; where, known only to him, there was a deeply hidden spring of pure freestone water, "so cold it'll make yo' teeth chatter"; and which one of old Lead's pups seemed likely to turn out the best coon dog.

"Possum" and coon hunts were big events, they would hunt all night.

Pa struck on his head against a wagon wheel and his brass helmet was driven down over his face, so when he yelled to be pulled out of the helmet his voice sounded like a coon song, coming from a phonograph.

The last time I went coon hunting, we treed something.

" "Yes," said Frank, "we've accidentally stumbled upon a regular 'coon-tree.

They wore caps shine de coons eye and red caps and red garments.

"They'll be having a bevel plate hearse with carved wood tassels and a coon driver next!"

"Now lots o' coon darkies dey uster steal de youn' Mockers jes' afore dey lef' de nest and sell 'em to white trash dat

The coon liveswell, no one seems to know particularly where Brer Coon lives, but when the Hunter's Moon is large and full he descends into the corn-lands, and men chase him with dogs for his fur, which makes the finest kind of overcoat, and his flesh, which tastes like chicken.

As soon as the tree had begun to fall, Archie dropped his ax, seized a short club that lay near him on the ground, and, discovering a 'coon making for the bushes, he started after him at full speed.

"Dem coons nebber got no gold crowns, howsumever.

I never seen a coon run so fast.

Out of there, you rascal coon chaser!"

When there was absolutely nothing more to keep them busy, Billy got the cards and asked Miss Bridger if she could play coon-canwhich was the only game he knew that was rigidly "two-handed."

A friend of mine, while out hunting on the San Joaquin, came upon an old coon trap, hidden among some tall grass, near the edge of the river, upon which he sat down to rest.

Alla, as soon as the door closed, realized that she had been jilted, and resolving not to be canned without a struggle, she threw on her pony coat over her kimono, and pinning her hat roguishly over one ear, she fled the snare and ran down eight flights of steps into the street, with two coon bell boys after her.