Show TOO EAGER TO MAKE CAPTURE hunter M aas ly have beer prey of coon last sunday while west woodruff our prominent and unter S trapper was making thas rounds ot his traps he come on fresh coon trad s in the snow and hollered foll ered them tor six miles wes to follow the tracks so fur when he started in but he kept a goin and goin thinking that he would overtake the coon most any minute and was thus led on from bad to worse at last however wes come onto the coon which skinned up a tree before wes could get a shot at it being wes shoot at any thing on a sunday anyhow and went into a bole in a beech tee about S feet from the gro ind the hole was pretty big and wea if he could climb up the tre he might rout out the coon and secure its pelt which would pay him for walking so fur so he off with his boots and started to shin up the tree in his sock feet after a hard struggle wes at last managed to reach the hole and found it jest big enough for him to get his head into and so wes he stuck his head in side of the hole to see it he could se anything of the coon and jest as he got his head through his duin feet slipped and there poor wes hung b the neck with his head in the hole wes hollered tor help but his voice was so muffled up in the hole that no body heard him being as he v as abou six miles from ahe nearest lobody would naturally hear him any how wess heart jumped clean up into his mouth when he thought what the coon could do to his tac while he was fast in the hole it it wanted to finally he managed to get his tooting again and boost disselt up high enough so he could pull out his head but not without skinning his ears all up then he slid down the tree and went home in disgust leaving the coon to take care of itself wes says he trembles yet when he thinks bt dying there pitr his head fast in that tree and he says the next time he sticks his head in a holler tree he hopes he 1 git fast and never git loose again so do we it was a durn fool trick tor a hunter trapper to do augle items in boston post |