hey ray why don't you tell us about that there coot skin hunting you and your pa went on that
they're not well i don't care if i do you know it's up winter time there it gets a little bit
before christmas it's just cold as it could be outside there you know we're all sitting around
there you know pa's sitting over in the corner of that big chalk backer in his mouth you know
he reared back and spit a great big gob in the far there you know and looked over me and told me
if i cared to go a coon skin hunting with him you know and i asked him i didn't i figured might as
well anyhow he doesn't put the far out he's gonna freeze there you know so we got outside there and
we called up all them our dogs but old roller and then we called him up too
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So we started out up across the hill there down next to the river you know going up the creek
bottom there over that little knoll sure enough after a while we heard all of them their dog
treat but old rover and then he treat too
pa he took out up across there just as hard as he could go you know he's about to run off to
leave me he's a great big man i just a little fella anyway you know
we got up there and we called up all them our dogs but old roller and then we called up all
them our dogs and we got out there and sure enough there he was setting up on top of the big dead chestnut hanging down on the grapevine over the top of cedar up in that big oak tree you know
so pa he told me if i cared to climb up there and shake him out you know and i asked him i didn't
so i climbed up there and i shook and i shook and i shook and i heard something hit the ground looked around at me
and all them our dogs jumped on me but old rover and then he jumped on me too
so i told pa if he cared to pull them our dogs off of me you know and he asked me he didn't
so he pulled all them dogs off of me but old rover and then he pulled him off too
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so during all that
you know that coon he got away he got out the middle of the river there you know pa told me if i
cared to go out there and get some of them dogs back in there before that coon drowned all of them
you know so i got out there and i heard something spluttered and drowned it and looked around at me
well i finally got away from there you know i got back up on the bank there and that coon had
all of them
all of them dogs drowned it but old rover and then he drowned him too