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coon

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1742, OED Evaluation: Chiefly U.S.

The raccoon (Procyon lotor), a carnivorous animal of North America.

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Interviewer: Yeah. What kind of um wild animals did you have around the farm? Speaker: Oh we had ah- well before I left there the wolves was out, and there was ah the bobcats, oh there was coons and-stuff-like-that, but you wouldn't ca-- I wouldn't call them wild.
Racoon.
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Speaker: Brown. Interviewer: Yeah. And black. Speaker: Not groundhogs? Interviewer: No. Much more than that. They eat nuts and store things away. Speaker: I can't think what that would be now. Foxes and 'coons? Interviewer: No, this is just a tiny little fellow. And he can really run. I've seen them running along a wire.
Racoon.
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You know what he is. And you have the skunk. You know what he is. And you've got porcupine. And the coon- and raccoon. And then ah the foxes. We haven't many of them.
Racoon.
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SSpeaker: And there's the mink. They're destructive animals. There's the skunk. He's a des-- and the coon! Interviewer: Mm-hm.
Racoon.
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Speaker: And uh, there was grasshoppers and um, rabbits- Interviewer: Yes, they were a nuisance. Speaker: And- groundhogs and then in the fall you had the coons in- in the corn and I guess that's about all that uh- Interviewer: Mm-hm. What about the insects that bite and are a bit of a nuisance, even now.
Racoon.
Speaker: Well, in town there wasn't any rabbits or raccoons, that'd be in the country mostly, you-know- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Like in the farms and- Interviewer: What- what did farmers do? Do you know how they handled this problem? Speaker: Well, the coons they uh- they shot them if they could, they'd shoot them and the rabbits too and they'd snare the rabbits.
Racoon.
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And then he opened it there, he would just open the m-- (inc) you-see. And it won't- would not open on him. And it was all coons, you-see. And you-know, they hadn't been ah too- been dried very good, you-know. And you-know, they're stinking like the devil, you-know. And ah he had them all there.
Racoon.
(inc) a- a good wolf-hide like that, you-know, run about ninety dollars or a hundred. Now there was a coon come in there, and ah shipped over from the States, you-know. And ah it was an awful size, you-know.
Racoon.
Now ah one here ah I got to ch-- there was a tree out there, (inc)-Maple. And ah James and C-- Char-- ah Charles and James, I think, was up here at Christmas, and the boys. They (inc) all these coon-tracks and they ah followed the coon-tracks and they came to this tree, you-know, in the hole of a tree, you-see, (inc) a hollow tree. So they come in here and told me, 'bout they wanted to get these coon.
Racoon.
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Three day camp-out. And we had a fella, he had a cooler, all his meat in it for three days and we told him "Put it in your trailer at night". We said "The 'coons are going to get into it". "No, no, no, that won't happen. They can't get into this, this is a special walking cooler" and blah-blah-blah. Okay, a big man, good friend of mine. Well, two-three-o'clock in the morning he hears this ruckus ...
Racoon.
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Speaker: ... had to shoot racoons and it's always at night and I'm always shooting single handed- Speaker 2: (Laughs) Speaker: With a flashlight in my hand. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker 2: (Laughs) (inc)- Speaker: And- Speaker 2: Doesn't work. Speaker: And it's two or three shots. Me getting a coon with a s-- first shot is just about never.
Racoon.
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he horses were in the field and they were very concerned about it and run over to the other side. But it didn't cause any trouble and went away on its trip. But I ah, liked sweet corn and of course the coons were- liked sweet corn too. And they would come to the garden in the fall and pair- tear down the corn and eat the sweet corn. Even when it was scarcely ready.
Racoon.
Speaker: Anyway as a rule I kept my dog inside at night to keep it from wandering around bothering the neighbours, but when the sweet corn was on, I'd let it- my dog out- Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: To try to keep the coons out. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: And it was good at it. It would tree the coon and I'd get my gat- battery lantern and shoot the coon in the tree. This night about ten-o'clock, I hadn't gone to bed, I heard my dog barking. So I got my twenty-two loaded up, it was a repeater, and my battery lantern.
Racoon.
... with the groundhogs, it would slip up (laughs) on its belly and the- and the groundhog would go down, maybe come back up and the dog would grab it. I'd- I'd two or three dogs were really good to get groundhogs and I shot a lot myself. And the coons, I h-- hated coons too. They'd come to the barn and tear your feedbags apart and darted the hay and I shot every one of them I could too. The last year I was on the farm, I shot thirteen. Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: And ah, I didn't weep about any of them.
Racoon.
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Interviewer: So were they able to save the barn or did it burn down? Speaker: Oh no it burnt down. Interviewer: Yeah, it burnt down, yeah. Speaker: But, few hours later, when they'd a high hoe dissecting it, there was two coons come out of it. So they- so they have better lungs than a human has.
Racoon.
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Speaker: ... I think I wouldn't want to meet the bear when I'm picking apples or doing- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Ah, that kind-of-stuff. But we've- um, the f-- I-don't-know, the little coon that I have, she's- she's feeding right now. She's as hungry as anything. She's been over three times today to get food. But I've told her that's it, no more.
Racoon.
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Speaker: I hope you like pussycats. Interviewer: I have two cats at home myself so it's no- Speaker: Yeah (inc) is a maine-coon cat, he's supposed to be a thoroughbred. He belonged to my neighbour and ah I've been looking after- my neighbour was- wasn't very well, she was on ah, um- how do you call it? She had to get air- oxygen all the time.
Racoon.
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Interviewer: Um, did you ever see a bear around here (laughs)? Speaker: I've never seen a bear around here, no. Interviewer: No. Speaker: No, Damon and Bes saw one. There was a little one out here a few years ago. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But I've never seen any bears around here. Lots of groundhogs. 'Coons. Interviewer: 'Coons? Speaker: 'Coons, yeah. Lots of 'coons. Um, I've seen the odd porcupine, not very many, I've only seen two or three of those. Um, no I've never seen a bear around here at all.
Racoon.