We’ve been waiting supper on you.” “We’re having chicken and dumplings,” Mama beamed, “and I cooked them especially for you.”
During the meal I told Grandpa I didn’t think that the coon in the big tree was the same one my dogs had been trailing at first.
“What makes you think that?” he asked. I told how the coon had fooled us and how Little Ann had seen or heard this other coon.
I figured he had just walked up on my dogs before he realized it.
A smile spread all over Grandpa’s face. Chuckling, he said, “It does look that way, but it wasn’t.
No, Billy, it was the same coon. They’re much too smart to ever walk up on a hound like that.
He pulled a trick and it was a good one. In fact, it’ll fool nine out of ten dogs.”
“Well, what did he do, Grandpa?” I asked. “I’m pretty sure he didn’t cross the river, so how did he work it?”
Grandpa pushed the dishes back and, using his fork as a pencil, he drew an imaginary line on the tablecloth.
“It’s called the backtracking trick,” he said. “Here’s how he worked it.
He climbed that water oak but he only went up about fifteen or twenty feet.
He then turned around and came down in his same tracks.
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