He backtracked on his original trail for a way. When he heard your dogs coming he leaped far up on the side of the nearest tree and climbed up.
He was in that tree all the time your dogs were searching for the lost trail.
After everything had quieted down, he figured that they had given up.
That’s when he came down and that’s when Little Ann either heard or saw him.”
Pointing the fork at me, Grandpa said very seriously,
“You mark my word, Billy, in no time at all that Little Ann will know every trick a coon can pull.”
“You know, Grandpa,” I said, “she wouldn’t bark treed at the water oak like Old Dan did.”
“Course she wouldn’t,” he said. “She knew he wasn’t there.”
“Why, I never heard of such a thing,” Mama said. “I’d no idea coons were that smart.
Why, for all anyone knows he may not be in the big tree at all. Maybe he pulled another trick.
It’d be a shame if Billy cut it down and found there was no coon in it.”
“Oh, he’s there, Mama,” I hastily replied. “I know he is.
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색