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...first event is coon-on-the-log. A chained raccoon in an open box atop a 2½-ft. log is waded out 12 yds. from shore by two handlers. The hounds are released, and the baying dog who can swim to the log and dump the coon into the drink in the shortest time (winning time: 11.1 seconds) is declared the winner. A well-bred sire can bring up to $9,000; raccoons come free to those who can catch them. The canine competition continues through drag races toward a caged coon hanging from a tree and another atop...
...people are able to associate the beautiful for coat they wear with the bloody hide of the slaughtered animal," Gregory C. Wilson, leader of the Eudangered Species project, said yesterday. "To me, the most incongruous sight is that of a girl in a raccoon coat with a peace button on her lapol...
...works as a stable girl on a farm near Wyeth's home in Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley. "One day I spotted her riding bareback over the meadow, her braided hair flying and those two long strands falling over her face," recalls Wyeth. "She was wearing that raccoon hat as I have never seen any girl wear a hat -as if it were on an animal, not a human." The final inspiration came half a year later when he was dining with his wife at the local hotel. He looked up to see Sissy smiling in at him through...
Another difference was that the horse in question won with a strong finish. The Raccoon showed himself to be a voracious eater at the outset, but when the going got tough, he had trouble eating the final pancakes and was not still enjoying them as the rest of us were. He crawled across the finish line in a manner hardly befitting a champion...
...Budinger the same day that a 19 year-old dope fiend cheats his way to a pancake eating title. Dancer's Image was forced to surrender the top prize at the Kentucky Derby, and in view of this clear precedent, Quincy House should strip the pancake title from the Raccoon. Aunt Jemima would want it no other...