Coming up to my dogs, we saw they were working up and down an old rail fence. We stood and watched.
Every now and then, Old Dan would rear up on a large hackberry tree that was standing about seven feet from the fence and bawl treed.
As yet Little Ann had not bawled the tree bark. We watched her. She was working everywhere.
She climbed up on the rail fence and followed its zigzag course until she disappeared in the darkness.
I told Papa I was sure the coon had walked the rail fence and in some way had fooled my dogs.
Old Dan would keep coming back to the hackberry tree. He would rear up on it and bawl treed. We walked up to him.
Looking the tree over, we could see that the coon wasn’t in it.
The judge said, “It looks like he has them fooled.”
“Maybe you had better call them off,” Grandpa said. “We can go someplace else and hunt.
We’ve got to get one more coon, even if I have to tree it myself.”
For some reason, no one laughed at his remark. “It’s almost daylight,” Papa said.
“Yes, that’s what has me worried,” I said. “We don’t have time to do any more hunting. If we lose this one, we’re beat.”
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