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Title: Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, William S., 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Birds
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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coon hunters holding the dogs, and oneof Paynes pyrotechnic men setting off thefireworks. The combination was too muchfor the coon. About that time the big dogbegan to jerk at his chain, and the pit-lamp inthe hands of the man who held him registeredon the exposed sensitive film a sort of st^do-graphic record of the efforts of the dog to getat the coon as soon as the latter landed onthe ground. As the coon dropped we setthe flash off, and caught both the dog andcoon about the time they came together atthe very spot on which we had focused thelens. The chase ended, the quarry caught, westraggled back over the hills to the distanttrolley line, as Orion rose high toward thezenith. A few hours more, and the easternsky would grow gray. Tired, but happy,we jogged along, most of us in silence, forabout that time in the morning after a coonhunt, the songs and jokes of the early evening 244 A Night Hunt are stale, and our spirits, with the night, areon the wane. Like an exploded sk^^rocket, we
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Dog and Coon in the Mix-up Note the forefoot of the coon between the dogs hind legs; hisbanded tail to the right of the dogs right forefoot. Thezig-zag line in front of the man at the left indicates themovement of his hand in which was a pit-lamp and theend of the dogs chain just prior to the flash. are getting back again to earth as fast as we canafter our excursion into the realm of darkness.Another denizen of the woods is frequentlyinterrupted in his night prowlings by the dogshunting for coon. I refer to the oppossum,who is himself frequently the object of thequest. In the Southern States the negroes are A Nio^ht Hunt 245 t> very fond of hunting for possiim. A success-ful hunt means a good dinner, the piece-de-rcsistance being the trophy of the chasestuffed with sweet potatoes. Roasted andserved as only an old mammy can roastand serve it, possum defies comparison.Perhaps roast suckling-pig comes the nearest,but even this lacks the flavor of the woods.We are used to thinking of

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