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Michigan OAKLAND COUNTY
A good many years ago the raccoons were quite thick, commencing early to destroy the corn in the fields along the base line. Northville was then a straggling little place, and some of its clerks and others who had not much to do, expressed a great deal of sympathy for the farmers, and offered to come over and kill the varmints. Of course this was kind in them; they were invited to do so. They came with the moonlight nights, and their dogs and guns made a terrible racket along the corn fields. Sometimes, but not often, they would fall a tree in true coon-hunter style. I was young then and thought that when I got older it would be fun for me to hunt coon ; but was sure if they kept on till the end of autumn there would not be as many raccoons left in Oakland county as came out of Noah's ark. However, it soon turned out that their dogs were trained to bark at nothing, their guns were fired at the same animal, and the farmers' melon patches told the rest of the meloncholy tale.
Oakland Co. Michigan
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