Tim, who used to amuse himself for hours at a time by playing with Meetcha, was in great anxiety, because the pet raccoon had once more mysteriously disappeared.
When Tim offered the raccoon a piece of duck-meat, he took it, soused it in the water in the boat, devoured it greedily and began whining for more.
The visitor is squarely above the river, which here, in the straitened valley between the Ridge and Raccoon Mountain, grows narrower and narrower till it rushes through the "Suck.
And beyond the valley was Raccoon Mountain, wooded throughout; and behind that, far away, the Cumberland range, blue with distance.
The raccoon sniffed her red cheeks and nosed her soft throat caressingly, and Davie, clinging to her hands, poured forth the story of his day’s adventures.
They were seated by the raccoon with quite all his impressiveness of manner.
He was still almost quite a bit dotty when I was obliged to leave him for an appointment with the raccoon and his wife to discuss the menu of my opening dinner, but Cousin Egbert, who had rejoined us, was listening sympathetically.
Another feature at the log cabin, and in all political processions, was at least one raccoon; and if not a live raccoon in a cage, at least a raccoon skin nailed upon the outside of the cabin.
Men in buckskins were dragging their rifle butts along the ground, sitting down on the river's edge and splashing water on their faces, shaking their heads angrily, raccoon tails on their caps wagging.
The raccoon had limped off to die, but to die free.
So in the afternoon Uncle Wiggily went to visit his friend at the store on Raccoon Island, and the two piggie boys stayed home to keep house.
Why, I guess so," answered Curly, as he looked off across the beach at Raccoon Island in Lake Hopatcong.
Well, that afternoon, Mamma Twistytail got the two boys ready, and off they went with Uncle Wiggily to Raccoon Island in Lake Hopatcong, which is a very nice place.
Well, then, we must have all the fun we can the few remaining days that we are to be on Raccoon Island," said Flop Ear.
There was a smell of something good to eat, and the raccoon decided to wait around to see if he could not get hold of it.
The raccoonnow noiselessly took four of the pieces of meat out of the bowl and began eating them.
When the raccoon heard this he ran down to the lake and quickly untied the rope from the stake and, drawing it back, tied it to a clump of bushes on the land.
It was not long before he met the raccoon awkwardly carrying a birch rogan that he had stolen from a couple of blind men.
Indeed he had had a good deal of trouble to keep from letting the raccoon know who he was.
The raccoonthen seized the two remaining pieces of meat and the bowl, and, with shouts of laughter, rushed out of the wigwam.
When Nanahboozhoo heard this he was very angry at the raccoon for his heartless trick.
But it happened that one day the raccoon was out prowling along the shore, looking for something to eat, when he happened to find the end of the rope that was tied to the post at the water's edge.
As he boarded the little vessel at the stern, a raccoon waddled in noiseless haste over the bow, and splashed into the wet covert of reeds beyond.
But the visitor with quiet gravity said, "Yes, that was all right;" and a companion pulled the Raccoondown into his seat again.
It is also found as a frequent escape on the wooded bluff of Raccoon Creek in the southern part of Owen County, and appears as native here.
Upon the lower terraces, towards the point of junction between the South and Raccoon forks, a great number of mounds of various sizes are situated.
Newark: “You are aware that the principal part of these remains are situated in the valley between the Raccoon creek and the South fork of Licking creek.
The very extensive and complicated series of works here presented occur at the junction of the South and Raccoon forks of Licking river, one mile west of the town of Newark, Licking county, Ohio.
The next morning Ringtail had disappeared, but, deciding that the raccoon would make a far more interesting neighbor than a colony of noisy sparrows, the Hermit tore out the nests and enlarged the doorway enough to permit the animal to enter.
A few paces farther on anotherraccoon had been having a similar meal when Ringtail appeared.
The bear, woodchuck, skunk, raccoon and chipmunk, fat from their summer feeding, had retired to den or hollow tree where they were to sleep snugly through the cold months.
The first dull cold days, heavy with their hint of coming snow, found the big raccoon fat and sleepy, ready to go into winter quarters.
This pan the raccoon always used for washing his food.
Occasionally he would enter a hole to find it occupied by another raccoon who only looked at him sleepily and went on with his comfortable doze.
With a yelp of surprise Pal halted so abruptly that he skidded in the dry leaves, while the big raccoon hissed warningly.
From that time on, the big raccoon made himself very much at home about the clearing.
The cornfield no longer held a lure for Ringtail, but the beech trees were dropping their little, three-cornered nuts and the big raccoon was still fat and happy.
The next morning when the farmer beheld the work of destruction, his wrath was great and he vowed vengeance upon all the raccoon tribe.
When Ringtail poked in his furry face, he found another raccoon already in possession of the snug hollow, but this fact did not trouble him at all.
In the wilderness, life is a serious business, yet the big raccoon enjoyed to the utmost the blessings which Providence had heaped upon him.
He slid down into the hole, which was carpeted almost a foot deep with beech leaves, and, instead of resenting the intrusion, the otherraccoon only sighed comfortably and went back to sleep.
When he came out some time later, he found Pal and the raccoon asleep side by side.
In a surprisingly short space of time, too, the raccoon came to trust the Hermit, even to the point of entering the cabin and eating from his hand.
Sometimes it was the furry face of a raccoon peeping out from some tree-cleft, or an otter swimming under the overhanging brushwood with the gleam of a white fish in its mouth.
His buckskin tunic had been ornamented over the front with dyed porcupine quills and Indian bead-work, while his leggings were scarlet with a fringe of raccoon tails hanging down from them.
So, asking Bud to give him a start, he soon reached the limb above the one on which the raccoon was.
But as they walked home, Bud carrying the raccoon by the tail, Ralph felt that his hunt had not been in vain.
A reminiscence of the death of the raccoon flashed on him like a vision.
Ralph did not know how ugly a customer a raccoon can be, and so got credit for more courage than he had.
Still the raccoon is the most likely to be out prowling at this time of night.
The trio of men led the way to where the man called Tom had said he had seen a raccoon a few days before.
The shoulders in the military coat seemed to stiffen and the eyes under the raccoon skin cap flashed.
All his body beneath his shoulders was hidden by the boat's sides, but his coat was of the Continental buff and blue, while a border cap of raccoon skin crowned his round head.
Legal tender were beaver, otter and deer skins, each at six shillings; raccoon and fox skins, worth one shilling and three pence each.
Clerk of the House of Commons, two hundred raccoon skins.
The Secretary to His Excellency, the Governor, five hundred raccoon skins.
We reached Raccoon Ford on the 16th, and our Regiment and the Second Massachusetts were detailed to support pickets at the Ford.
The skins of the raccoon and opossum bring about a dollar and a half, and half a dollar, respectively.
A few steel traps set unbaited along the outside of the runs may prevent a serious loss and provide you with a handsome mink or raccoon fur skating or motoring cap.
For an opossum green corn and a little raw meat is all that is necessary, while for a raccoon a crawfish may be added.
Once on a time, when out with his gun, he espied a raccoon on a lofty tree.
The home of the raccoon is generally in a hollow tree; the young are brought forth in May, and are from four to six in number.
The best season for trapping theraccoon is late in the fall, winter, and early spring, or in and between the months of October and April.
Last month we came on fresh raccoon tracks, like prints of little hands, in the leaf mould of the wood road, and coons are often shot here.
She asked if we had ever seen a raccoon with a piece of meat.
A large sycamore in a ravine below a pond had a cavity in its base within which a raccoon reared its litter of young one summer.
Lookout Mountain was also fortified and held by the enemy, who also kept troops in Lookout valley west, and on Raccoon Mountain, with pickets extending down the river so as to command the road on the north bank and render it useless to us.
East of Missionary Ridge flows the South Chickamauga River; west of Lookout Mountain is Lookout Creek; and west of that, Raccoon Mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raccoon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
