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While in the rural districts the frolics and kindred pleasures were the chief pastimes, in the cities and towns the celebrations were more elaborate. In gaudy regalia the "Hog Eye" danced for the general amusement, and the Cooner in his rags "showed his motions." For many years before the war Uncle Guy was the star performer at these functions in Wilmington.
S.B. Murphy, sheriff, Wilkinson county, Georgia in the Milledgeville "Journal," May 15, 1838. "Brought to jail, a negro man named George he has a great many scars from the lash." Mr. L.E. Cooner, Branchville Orangeburgh District, South Carolina in the Macon "Messenger," May 25, 1837. "One hundred dollars reward, for my negro Glasgow, and Kate, his wife.
Weekdays he was addicted to the milder sin of the flute and, after chores, if there were no one to talk with him, he would sit long and pour his soul into that magic bar of boxwood. Uncle Eb had another great accomplishment. He was what they call in the north country 'a natural cooner'. After nightfall, when the corn was ripening, he spoke in a whisper and had his ear cocked for coons.
He told me of storms he had weathered particularly, one off Christiana Cooner, a solitary island in the south Atlantic and the effect of his discourse is that I have ever since been careful, in the company of sailors, to avoid speaking of the winds I have encountered. "I'll fix you up for a hat," he continued, in language of matchless force and piquancy. "Bend her; she'll about fit you.
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