He said he wouldn’t. I agreed to bring my ax and lantern.
As they turned to leave, Rainie smirked. “Sucker!” he said. I made no reply.
After the Pritchard boys had gone, my grandfather looked at me and said,
“Son, I have never asked another man for much, but I sure want you to catch the ghost coon.”
I told him if the ghost coon made one track in the river bottoms, my dogs would get him.
Grandpa laughed. “You’d better be getting home. It’s getting late and your mother is waiting for the corn meal,” he said.
I could hear him chuckling as he walked toward his store.
I thought to myself, “There goes the best grandpa a boy ever had.”
Lifting the sack of meal to the back of my old mule, I started for home.
All the way, I kept thinking of Old Dan, Little Ann, ghost coons, and the two ugly, dirty Pritchard boys.
I decided not to tell my mother and father anything about the hunt for I knew Mama wouldn’t approve of anything I had to do with the Pritchards.
The following evening I arrived at the designated spot early.
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