Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1896 — One Way to Put It. [ARTICLE]

One Way to Put It.

Many of the sayings and doings of the Southern negro, that find their way Into print, may be apocryphal, but enough are known to be true to make good his claim to humor. A gentleman discussing coon-hunting relates an Incident, In Forest and Stream, that illustrates this characteristic drollery. The party, consisting of hunters, dogs, axes and torches galore, had been hunting for a good part of the night without any luck whatever. Finally, the dogs treed a coon. It would take some time to fell so large a tree, and one of the negroes volunteered to climb It and ascertain the whereabouts of tho coon. All agreed to this, and sat around to await developments. Soon after the negro had disappeared among the branches, a peculiar sound was heard from the top of the tree. It was a HM of mixture of negro and coon dialect Some one ventured the remark: “Bill, have you got that coon?” “Yes, sah,” was the rsply, “Use got dls here coon; but I wish you’d send some o’ dem darkies up here to help ms turn him loose.”