I knew he couldn’t run all night. He had already far surpassed any coon I had ever chased.
“They’re just about there,” Rubin said. Just then I heard Old Dan bark treed.
I waited for Little Ann’s voice. I didn’t hear her. I wondered what it could be this time.
“He’s there all right,” Rubin said. “He’s in that tree.” “Well, come on,” I said.
“I want to see that tree.” “You might as well get your money out,” Rainie said.
I told him he had said that once before, back on the riverbank.
Chapter - XIII
COMING UP TO THE TREE, I COULD SEE IT WAS A HUGE BUR oak.
It wasn’t tall. It was just the opposite, rather low and squatty.
The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn’t shed all of its leaves yet.
It stood by itself in an old field. There were no other trees within fifty yards of it.
About fifteen feet to the left were the remains of a barbed-wire fence.
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