. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. "AI1 Coons Lnok Alike to ; which time she was away out on the hill, describing the curve and heading back to the home tree. "Such a tangle was enough to fool any dog, but these are regular bloodhounds for following a scent. Such an exhibition of staying quality and marvelous tracking is worth a day's travel to see. With such dogs coon hunting is a sport, sure enough. "Then, did you notice the neat way in which Red- eye smothered the old coon? All the other dogs just took hold anywhere, and held on like vices; but Redeye waited his opportu
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. "AI1 Coons Lnok Alike to ; which time she was away out on the hill, describing the curve and heading back to the home tree. "Such a tangle was enough to fool any dog, but these are regular bloodhounds for following a scent. Such an exhibition of staying quality and marvelous tracking is worth a day's travel to see. With such dogs coon hunting is a sport, sure enough. "Then, did you notice the neat way in which Red- eye smothered the old coon? All the other dogs just took hold anywhere, and held on like vices; but Redeye waited his opportunity, and, dashing in, caught the coon by the throat in his vice-like jaws, and never let go until its life was ; "That's his particular business," said Mr. Watson; "he never wastes any strength in fighting, and sel- dom if ever takes any other hold on the game, what- ever it may be. No. he has not been trained to do so; in fact, I do not see how it would be possible to train a dog for any particular part of the sport. Like most good dogs, he simply acts upon his own instinct, or reason. Perhaps it is experience, or the sum of all these ; Sure enough, there were two young coons in the tree where old Racket still stood guard. They were easily located, and shot without difficulty. The rain had ceased falling while the above com- ments and kills were being made, and the well-nigh full moon had come out, covering the scene with a flood of silver light. The night was warm, and the fresh breeze invigorating; white, flocculent clouds drifted lazily across the sky, splashed with frag- mentary rainbows. The ground all about us now bore evidence of the stirring scenes which had here been enacted hnlf a century ago. It had been over- turned and washed out by the gold hunters of *49. who had left the smooth, round cobbles, ranging from pebbles to footballs in size, now heaped in irregular mounds and windrows,—earns, they seemed to me, of ruined
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