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We left Fort Larned a little before noon and arrived at Big Coon Creek, twenty-two miles from Fort Larned, where we stopped for supper at about four o'clock in the afternoon. A lieutenant of my escort in charge of the soldiers put out a guard.
The other Deep Woods people looked at the way he did it, as if it was something new that they had never seen before. Mr. 'Coon said: "I think I'd like a little, just a little, of that medicine; Mr. 'Possum's gift certainly would come handy at times." Mr. Squirrel nodded. Mr. Rabbit looked out over the Deep Nowhere, and said nothing at all. Once upon a time Mr.
'Dat dawg ain' good fo' nothin' ailse; so I jes rickon he 'th boun' to be a coon dawg;" and the author of "Snow in April" pounded the arm of his chair and roared till the gas-fixtures vibrated. Then at last, taking advantage of a lull in the talk, Rosella, unable to contain her patience longer, found breath to remark: "And 'Patroclus' my my little book?" "Ah hum, yes. 'Patroclus, your story.
"No doubt you think it a good joke," said Archie, as he came up, "but I don't. It isn't a funny thing to tramp through the woods, on a cold day like this, with your clothes wringing wet. But I've got the 'coon." "You must have had a tough time catching him," said Harry. "But let us go down to the camp."
"By all that's funny! it's another coon," gasped Neal; and he gently pinched the shoulder of Joe, who lay on his left. "Joe!" he whispered. "Wake up! There's a raccoon just outside the tent. I heard his cry." The guide was awake and alert in an instant. So, too, was Dr. Phil. "What's up, boys?" asked the latter, hearing a murmur. "There's a coon close by," said Neal again. "Listen to him!"
"Just then a little rascal stuck a hot iron into him, and off he ran in the flames, 'cacheing' on the cool side of a big chunk of fire, a-looking at us for water; but I cared no more for him than the Pawnee whose scalp was tucked in my belt for stealing my horses on Coon Creek; and I said:
For the first time Tom's face showed doubts, and he called to Dennis: "Choke off two dogs from that fust coon an' throw 'em in here!" They came in a moment and clinched with Boney's enemy. The charge of two new troopers drove the coon to desperation. The sharp claws flew like lightning. The new dogs ran back into the water with howls of pain and scrambled up the bank to their old job.
'Coon dropped and held by his hands, and then began to swing; and pretty soon, when Mr. 'Coon was swung out nearly straight in Mr. 'Possum's direction, he let go and turned over in the air and caught Mr. 'Possum's hands, and they both swung, and everybody cheered and said that was the finest thing yet. Then they went right on swinging Mr.
W. J. May, A. W. Fairbanks, G. A. Benedict and John Coon were at different times added to the firm, Mr. May and Coon afterwards retiring, and being followed after some years by Mr. Harris, who was the veteran editor of the city. The Herald is now the oldest paper in the city, and the oldest daily in Northern Ohio. It was always Whig or Republican in politics.
A coon dog of uncertain lineage and intellectual development, tuned to the howling pitch, doubtless, by the music of Tilly's sobs, joined in the chorus. "Po' Davy is gwine he's most gone boo boo-oo!" sobbed Aunt Sally. "Pap Pap don't leave us," echoed Tilly from the back porch. "Ow wow oo oo," howled the dog. The Bishop went in sad and subdued, expecting to find Uncle Davy breathing his last.
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