But he's too timid an'
too cowardly, an' afraid of Bill. So to play even, he lines out to
bushwhack this he'pless, oninstructed raccoon. Olson figgers to take
advantage of what's cl'arly a loop-hole in a raccoon's
constitootion.
"Mebby you never notices it about a raccoon, but once he gets
interested in a pursoot, he's rigged so he can't quit none ontil the
project's a success. Thar's herds an' bands of folks an' animals
who's fixed sim'lar. They can start, an' they can't let up. Thar's
bull-dogs: They begins a war too easy; but the c'pacity to quit is
left out of bull-dogs entire. Same about nose-paint with gents I
knows. They capers up to whiskey at the beginnin' like a kitten to
warm milk; an' they never does cease no more. An' that's how the
kyards falls to raccoons.
"Knowin these yere deefects in raccoons, this Olson plots to take
advantage tharof; an' by playin' it low on Bill's raccoon, get even
with Bill about that dead hawg. Which Bill wouldn't have took a
drove of hawgs; no indeed! not the whole Fall round-up of hawgs in
all of West Tennessee, an' lose that raccoon.
"It's when Bill's over to Pine Knot layin' in tobacker, an' nose-
paint an' corn meal, an' sech necessaries, when Olson stands in to
down Bill's pet.
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