Cooning

At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.

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But if he [the dog] strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness

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These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning, possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...

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I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning, Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?” “Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy, I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”

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