Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Coons in Connecticut. [ARTICLE]

Coons in Connecticut.

New York Sun. Connecticut has long been famous for raising very big crops of big, fat coons, but the magnitude of the yield this season causeseven the veteran coon hunters to open their eyes in astonishment and to comment: “I never saw the iike of it afore.” Coons are everywhere. A patch of woods big enough to support one gray nquirrel and family is compelled this, year to sustain one coon and family, too. There is something the matter with the dog, or, the tracking is phenomenally poor, if the hunter cannot bag a coon any night within a mile and a half of this city; and a dozen miles to the westward, in the craggy valleys of Salem, the Lymes, and in East Haddam, a dog that shows his master less than four or five qpons after a night’s hunt is thrashed and seriously informed that he is a cur.