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"Coon-dog Wess" -- he allus went / 'Mongst us here by that-air name. / Moved in this-here Settlement / From next county -- he laid claim, -- / Lived down in the bottoms -- whare / _Ust_ to be some coons in thare! --
In nigh Clayton's, next the crick, -- / Mind old Billy ust to say / Coons in thare was jest that thick, / He'p him corn-plant any day! -- / And, in rostneer-time, be then / Aggin' him to plant again!