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Noey Bixler ketched him, and fetched him in to me / When he's ist a little teenty-weenty baby-coon / 'Bout as big as little pups, an' tied him to a tree; / An' Pa gived Noey fifty cents, when he come home at noon.
Nen he buyed a chain fer him, an' little collar, too, / An' sawed a hole in a' old tub an' turnt it upside-down; / An' little feller'd stay in there and won't come out fer you -- / 'Tendin' like he's kindo' skeered o' boys 'at lives in town.