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They never looked really hungry or freezing, but they never plowed, or planted, they had no cattle or pigs or chickens, only a little corn for meal, and some cabbage, and wild things they shot for meat, and coons to trade the skins for more powder and lead bet they ate the coons never any new clothes, never clean, they or their house.
There was an air of geniality on all now, and Yan took advantage of this to ask for something he had long kept in mind. "Mr. Clark, will you take us out for a Coon hunt? We know where there are lots of Coons that feed in a corn patch up the creek." If Yan had asked this a month ago he would have got a contemptuous refusal.
We pulled back to the schooner, on our way collecting, off a bank, a number of fine oysters, very superior to those which the 'coons are addicted to eating. At length a light breeze sprang up, sufficient to carry us at a slow rate down the sound. We passed vast numbers of the Florida cormorants a small species, which breeds in the mangrove islets.
"Now, I do jest wonder what them two coons hev on hand?" said the American, when they had thus left him with his curiosity unslackened; "I'm durned if I don't go up myself and see: people must rise pretty airly o' mornin's to take a rise out of this old hoss!" A roll of the ship, however, coming as soon as he had risen from his seat, settled his inquisitiveness.
"Matter enough matter enough! and you will think so too to he robbed of our findings by a parcel of blasted 'coons, that haven't soul enough to keep them freezing. Why, this is the matter, you must know: only last week, we miners of Tracy's diggings struck upon a fine heap of the good stuff, and have been gathering gold pretty freely ever since.
It lay, it is true, right between two of the county roads, the Court-house Road being on one side, and on the other the great "Mountain Road," down which the large covered wagons with six horses and jingling bells used to go; but the lodge lay this side of the one, and "the big woods," where the boys shot squirrels, and hunted 'possums and coons, and which reached to the edge of "Holetown," stretched between the house and the other, so that the big gate-post where the semi-weekly mail was left by the mail-rider each Tuesday and Friday afternoon was a long walk, even by the near cut through the woods.
"I begin to wish we were safe back again in our old one," whined Silvy, who was much frightened by the danger she had just escaped. "Pooh, pooh, child; don't be a coward," said Nimble, laughing. "Cousin Blackie never told us there were hawks and coons on this island," said Velvet-paw. "My dear, he thought we were too brave to be afraid of hawks and coons," said Nimble.
"Talk about your treed coons, why that's old Toby sitting up there, and hanging on for dear life." "And that object in the camp is, I believe, a wildcat, worrying over our fine ham," remarked Frank, quietly raising the hammers of his shotgun.
I whisper back: 'H. P. is up against a bribe, senator's size, and the coons have got him going. I saw Mellinger's hand moving closer to the package. 'He's weakening, I whispered to Henry. 'We'll remind him, says Henry, 'of the peanut-roaster on Thirty-fourth Street, New York. "Henry stooped down and got a record from the basketful we'd brought, slid it in the phonograph, and started her off.
The pigeons roosted not four miles from us. In the woods along the river even a woman could kill coons and squirrels, all we'd need no need for us to eat rabbits like the Mormons. Our chicken yard was fifty miles across. The young ones'd be flying by roasting-ear time and in fall the sloughs was black with ducks and geese.
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