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You know I was a guest in a _____ share a while back, it was the first time I been him in oh I reckon by five or six years.
Papa kinda remembered how I used to like to go coon hunting when I was a boy.
So ___ he says to me, he says Tek (that's my maiden name, Tek) he says Tek while I fix up the lantern, you go out there and get the axe and call the dogs, get ole Rock and Blue, Mac and Butch, be sure and get ol' Shorty.
So I did, I went out to the woodpile and got the axe and started calling the dogs.
Sure enough right off from under the house they all come a-running, every last one of them, that is all of them except ol' Shorty.
Pretty soon Ol' Shorty he come out too, so we took off down towards the river bottom, me and Papa. Pretty soon Ol' Shorty struck it too, well the dogs run and they bark and they bark and they run, they was a-telling the news to merry. Seems liked to me it was three or four miles.
First things we know the dog treed, that is all of them except Ol' Shorty.
Pretty soon Ol' Shorty treed too.
We got up to the tree we did, there they was, all standing under the tree barking and a-barking, all of them except Ol' Shorty.
Pretty soon Ol' Shorty started barking too.
Papa told me to climb off the tree and cut off the limb, so I did, I done just done what he told me. I got out on one end of the limb and I started cutting.
First thing I know I heard something hit the ground, hehe, it is me.
I started to get up and do you know ever darn one of them dogs jumped right smack dab on top of me, right in the middle of my back.
Well that is all of them except Ol' Shorty
Pretty soon Ol' Shorty jumped on me too
Papa started grabbing dogs with the tail and a-knocking them first one which a-way and in the other, finally he got them all off of me.
That is all of them except ol' Shorty.
Pretty soon he got Ol' Shorty off of me too.
Say what in there you folks out there like to have a pass at a good old coon dogs?
Well if you do, you can just have every last one of them.
Well that is all of them except Ol' Shorty.
Come to think of it, you can just have Ol' Shorty too.