“Yes, it is, Grandpa,” I said. “It’s the biggest one in the river bottoms.”
Grandpa started chuckling. “That’s all right,” he said. “The bigger they are the harder they fall.”
“How are you going to make the coon stay in the tree, Grandpa?” I asked.
With a proud look on his face, he said, “That’s another one of my coon- hunting tricks; learned it when I was a boy.
We’ll keep him there all right. Oh, I don’t mean we can keep him there for always, but he’ll stay for four or five days.
That is, until he gets so hungry he just has to come down.”
“I don’t need that much time,” I said. “I’m pretty sure I can have it down by tomorrow night.”
Grandpa looked at the cut. “I don’t know,” he said.
“Even though it is halfway down, you must remember you’ve been cutting on it half of one night and one day.
You might make it, but it’s going to take a lot of chopping.”
“If I get a good night’s sleep,” I said, “and a couple of meals under my belt, I can do a lot of chopping.”
Grandpa laughed. “Speaking of meals,” he said, “your ma is having chicken and dumplings for supper.
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