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mattAr and when she seen it, she said, Son, that‘s a pheasan1~. Soue day you‘ll be a good hunter. An‘ guess I was for I killed lots o‘ pheasants, quail, squir‘ls an‘ rabbits.

	Little Satnxay Duirall had a pointer he called “Quailtt. She was the smartest dog I ever seen, but everybody had smart dogs them days. ~uail‘d trail birds when they was runnin‘ till she got obst and then circle ‘round ‘em an‘ make her staixi.

	Be careful there, quail, Mr. Sanuay vrould say. He‘d nearly ~dwa~rs get e ight or ten out uv a o ovey an‘ s omet line s the wh o la e ovey. I you sta go along jess to see him shoot. He hardly ever missed. There was s o many quail that nobody ever thought to leave any uv a covey if he wanted that many an‘ they didn‘t get so scattered that he couldn‘t fin‘ em.

	After the deer was all killed out, people trained their deer hounds to chase foxes, ooons and such like. Thø white boys from town yousta come and get Trill and young Saziimy to go coon huntin‘. They al‘ays had ten or twelve dogs. They al‘ays taken nie along an‘ treated rae jest the sanie as if I was aawhite as they was. If I got behind or out o‘ sight somebody was sure to say, ‘~Thore‘s George‘?

	One night we treed three coons in a big hollow oak. They started to cut down the trees an‘ put me at the butt with a fire bran‘ • When the tree f41 the ooons‘d come out an‘ I was supposod to drive ‘em back with the fire, jest lettin‘ out one at a time so‘s the dogs could kill ‘em. I ~ about half scared uv ‘em and when one big feller come out I backed up a& he got by ~e. I throwed the fire at him ail‘ it ut on his back au‘ burnt him. I never seen a ooon run so~ fast, But the dogs soon treed him again an‘ we got him. Then we come back an‘ the dogs picked up the trail uv another one an‘ we catohed

him. i: never seed a bigger one. He was as long as this umbrella (31 ft.) 2~he other one got away~ Coon huntin‘ was a great sport with the boys an‘ men