Now we don’t want to miss that, so let’s get busy.”
“What do you want me to do, Grandpa?” I asked. “Well, let’s see,” he said. “First thing we’ll need is some sticks about five feet long.
Take your ax, go over in that canebrake, and get us six of them.”
I hurried to do what Grandpa wanted, all the time wondering what in the world he was going to do.
How could he keep the coon in the tree? When I came back, he was taking some old clothes from the buggy.
“Take this stocking cap,” he said. “Fill it about half-full of grass and leaves.”
While I was doing this, Grandpa walked over and started looking up in the tree.
“You’re pretty sure he’s in that hollow limb, are you?” he asked.
“He’s there all right, Grandpa,” I said. “There’s no other place he could be.
I’ve looked all over it and there’s no other hollow anywhere.”
“Well, in that case,” Grandpa said, “we’d better put our man along about here.”
“What man, Grandpa?” I asked in surprise. “The one we’re going to make,” he said.
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