“I don’t know,” I said. “Do you think they’re too young?”
“No, I don’t think so,” he said. “I’ve heard that the younger they are the better it is.”
“Well, in that case,” I said, “I’ll start tomorrow.”
With the help of my oldest sister, we started giving my pups their first lessons.
She would hold their collars while I made trails with the hide for them to follow.
I’d climb trees that leaned out over the river, jump out into the water, swim to the other side, and make trails up and down the bank.
With a long pole and wire, I’d drag the hide on top of rail fences, swing it through the air,
and let it touch the ground twenty or thirty feet away.
I did everything with that hide a coon would do and probably a lot of things a coon couldn’t do.
It was a beautiful sight to see my pups work those trails.
At first they were awkward and didn’t know what to do, but they would never quit trying.
Old Dan would get so eager and excited, he would overrun a trail.
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