They were right on his tail when he went up. Besides, Little Ann was bawling her head off when I came to them.”
“Of course he’s there,” Grandpa said. “They were crowding him too closely. He didn’t have time to pull another trick.”
Grandpa left soon after supper, saying to me, “I’ll be back down in a few days and I want to see that coon hide.”
I thanked him for helping me and walked out to the buggy with him.
“Oh, I almost forgot,” he said. “I heard there was a fad back in the New England states.
Seems like everyone is going crazy over coonskin coats.
Now if this is true, I look for the price of coon hides to take a jump.”
I was happy to hear this and told my father what Grandpa had said.
Papa laughed and said, “Well, if you can keep the coons out of those big sycamores, you might make a little money.”
Before I went to bed, Mama made me take a hot bath.
Then she rubbed me all over with some liniment that burned like fire and smelled like a civet cat.
It seemed like I had barely closed my eyes when Mama woke me up.
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