As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti mater.
I found the following wisdom quite informative as it came from Nebraska in 1863. It seemed that due to drought and grasshoppers, the food was in slight supply and grew worse as the snows grew deep.
I leave it to the Methodist Preacher to fill in the wisdom about coons.
"After almost giving up the arrival of the teams in despair, some of the men concluded they would rather eat coon-meat than starve; so out they sallied for a coon-hunt, and their efforts were rewarded with three nice coons. Their game was nicely dressed and as nicely cooked, and all who were so fortunate as to be permitted to partake of the feast declared the first coon very good. When they began to eat the second coon, it was not so good, and the third was very poor eating indeed. One of the men, in describing his experience, said, "One coon is very good eating, two coons are not so good, and I can not go the third coon at all." However, I should think that a real hungry man might relish even the third coon."
Wells, Charles Wesley, 1841
I never have ate a coon. I have heard of them being baked, for a coon feed, and the carcase looking like so much a baby in the roaster.
The thing is about coons, I have caught them and skinned them, and they have worms in their intestines like a dog or cat, and that is just what is off putting to me, not that I find the imagery of roasted babies attractive.
Coons are fat creatures, and I do suppose if one was about a line of them, that you could render a hundred pounds off of a hundred coons in a hound hunt or trapping them. Coons are not the brightest of creatures, and so active over a trap they get caught. The only thing is, a foot trap numbs the foot and a coon is so carniverous that they will dine upon their own feet. That is what takes place as no animal gnaws it's leg off to get out of a trap. They bite at the trap in raccoons and finding something tasty, they eat it, in their own foot.
They really are of the bear family and some human type diet, although they will eat things rotten or excrement a coyote would.
I just never knew that one coon was good, two coons are off putting and three coons are nothing you want to do anything with at all. I suppose there is some coon lesson in that which some sage could draw out the deeper meaning of it all in.
Interesting in three coons are just too many.
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