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File:3 rhomboids with interior lines at head of page. Coon hunting is not bad fun — the method is this — choosing a clear moonlight night, the hunter with a couple of two of dogs trained to next word underlined: tree, turns into the woods, and hunts about until the dogs come on the trail of the ‘coon, who feeds at night on the nuts &c beneathe the trees taking to the trees when he hears the dog, he conceals himself in a hole or lays out on a limb exposing as little as possible of his body. The hunter coming up to the tree, if there is sufficient light and he spies the ‘coon, tumbles him down with his rifle, or downs with the tree, when the dogs sieze & soon kill the fat little rascal, sometimes 3 or 4 ‘coons are killed in the same tree — the flesh is very good eating but rich, the skin makes a good cap and is worth from 4d to 6d to the furriers or hatter