Even in my boy's time the boys kept coons just for the pleasure of it, and without meaning to elect Whig governors and presidents with them.
Some one had told him that a man at Hillsborough was buying coons and foxes for the zoological gardens in New York.
But ye'll find 'coons is mighty mischeevous 'round a house.
After the deer was all killed out, people trained their deer hounds to chase foxes, coons and such like.
One night we treed three coons in a big hollow oak.
His white suit was soiled and ragged, and he whistled "All Coons Look alike to Me!
All Coons Look alike to Me," I recognized, though they sang but fragments of the text.
The nights were getting frosty and the coons less dangerous, so the mother changed the place of roosting to the thickest foliage of a hemlock-tree.
Should you have a 'coon so tame that it will follow you, start out and tramp through the woods, along streams and just such places as 'coons frequent.
This solved the problem, and after that, he was the cause of many 'coons losing their life, as he located them in the den and trees where they had not stepped a foot on the ground.
If it happens to be summer time, take him where 'coons abide and turn him loose.
But she has again saved her young, as in all likelihood the hunters will not go back to the tree where the little coons are serenely sitting on the leafy boughs, or never think of there being any more coons there.
At first the little 'coons stay close to their mother's heels, but they grow more venturesome as they grow older, and soon begin to make little journeys on their own account.
I have known several hounds to be drowned by 'coons in deep water.
I have had both slow and fast and have hunted 'coons about 23 years.
Visit your traps the next morning and the chances will be that you will have one or two 'coons waiting you.
The next day, take your dog where 'coons are moving and he will soon have one for you.
Where are all of the 'coons going to stay when you get all of the den trees cut down?
The young 'coons grow rapidly, and at the tender age of from six to eight weeks old they begin to accompany their faithful mother in search of food.
Between the coons and the commission-merchants your profits will vanish, Hope.
We kept the rabbits out with a fence, and we can keep the coons out with something else.
They prefer listening to the comic songs of the coons to the birds on the hillside, and the band on the Promenade to the rush of wind in the ears as one stands on the cliffs.
We bathed twice a day and went to all the shows we could find, coons and concerts and plays in the Alexandra Hall.
Bears were caught in log traps, hedgehogs were hunted with clubs, and coons were caught in steel traps.
In the early autumn, when the corn was in milk, bears, hedgehogs, and coons were very troublesome, for they trampled down a great deal more than they ate.
You wouldn't kill many coons if you had to run back to the house for your powder and lead after you saw the coon before you could shoot him.
We're not likely to see any coons before we git to Murfreesboro.
We're awfully sorry," panted Raymonde in excuse, undoing the padlock which the coons had left fastened, and allowing the school to tramp into the place of entertainment.
Immediately after preparation, thecoons retired to make final arrangements in the barn.
Costumes had to be contrived--a difficult matter with only the school theatrical box to draw upon--and ten coons to be turned out in uniform garb.
I know the Coons started late, but we really couldn't help it.
I seed wild cats and coons and bunches of wolves and heered de panthers scream like de woman.
Illustration: Hagar Lewis] "We set traps for 'possum, coons and squirrels.
It not unfrequently happened while Don and Bert were hunting 'coons and 'possums at night, that the game took refuge in a tree much too large to be cut down in any reasonable time by such choppers as they were.
I wish we had one or two 'coons to back up the story," said Lester.
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When about midnight they concluded to return to the house, seven coons and two 'possums were loaded upon the shoulders of the three attendants.
I've tried to get 'coons that way lots of times up home, but never had the right kind of dog.
But do you KNOW it is--did any of those coons tell you so?
I hed a squint o' yer crowd acomin' over the rise, an' I spected 'twar them coons hustling out fur grub.
Say, perhaps it's the coons he told us about, the outlaws that live in the swamp!
They's a few bad coons somewhar in that thar place.
Upon this somewhat unstable basis the formation of the troupe of Green Coons was undertaken.
Besides there are still some big elms left in this patch and if there would be coonsanywhere it would be there.
It was unquestionable that there were coons in the neighbourhood, and a coon hunt was quite in order.
The opinion has prevailed in the neighbourhood for some time past that coons are becoming plentiful again.
With undignified haste I back away from the outlet and fumble a blunt arrow on the string, and I am just in time, for here comes one of the maddest and one of the sickest coons I ever saw.
Dar’s just as good coons in dis village as eber you were.
Illustration] It is well adapted for Rabbits and Coons and when made on a small scale, may be successfully employed in taking rats and mice.
Illustration] The beaten track of thecoons may often be discovered in soft ground, and a trap carefully concealed therein will soon secure its victim.
Then he took him to a gold cure, where he learned to abhor whiskey in a week, and then to the priest, to whom he confessed that he had lied about the number of coons in the Canoper.
Of course, about those fifty coons noo, what was the harm in that?
Theysh tree down Canoper, jish short pleashant walk, got fify coons in it!
Of course, I know about the fifty coons of the Canoper, and things like that; honest, I dinna believe ye can help it.
Sometimes, miles away from his den, his track turns aside and goes straight to a hollow tree where other coons are spending the winter.
From this ruined home I went to the den among the rocks by the path that the coons used to follow.
Often, as I have said, three or four cubs will sleep the winter out in the same den; but again you may find two or three old coons in the same tree.
Often the young coons of the same family sleep all together in the same den.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
