“That’s why I couldn’t come home. I was afraid he’d get away.”
“Maybe you just think he’s there,” Papa said. “I believe I’d make sure before I’d cut down a tree that big.”
“Oh, he’s there all right,” I said. “My dogs weren’t ten feet behind him when he went up it.”
“Why are you so determined to get this coon?” Papa asked. “Couldn’t you go somewhere else and tree one? Maybe the tree would be a smaller one.”
“I thought about that, Papa,” I said, “but I made a bargain with my dogs.”
“I told them that if they would put one in a tree, I’d do the rest. Well, they fulfilled their part of the bargain.”
“Now it’s up to me to do my part, and I’m going to, Papa.”
“I’m going to cut it down. I don’t care if it takes me a year.”
Papa laughed and said, “Oh, I don’t think it’ll take that long, but it will take a while.”
“I tell you what I‘ll do. You take the mule and go get some breakfast. I’ll chop on it until you get back.”
“No, Papa,” I said. “I don’t want any help. I want to cut it down all by myself.”
You see, if someone helps me, I wouldn’t feel like I kept my part of the agreement.
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