I took Nitor to the schoolhouse around 11:00. I wlked him past the first woods & he started opening, I didn't let him go because I didn't want him trailing behind the house there. I kept going about 20 yards and then sent him north, he was still excited & babbled a little but went the way I wanted. He opened deep after a few minutes. I circled around & caught up with him working the track on a ridge. It was cold & windy & he was struggling. I figured he might tree it on the ridge or... head down into that nasty swamp. I decided to catch him & move. He didn't like it, I'm sure he thought he was about to tree.
Went to the vegetable garden and sent him north. Ho opened and was running hot. He located and treed but it was funny. He kept moving around. When I got there I saw why, he was in a jungle of fallen trees. I just waited & he finally worked his way through & then was trailing northwest. He would stop and tree a little every so often then move on. I was beginning to think fox. Finally he treed on the west edge of the woods. I was going to shock him if he went on from there but he stayed and really started to tree harder. I fell on the weay to him and I landed with my adams apple on a stick. Lucky to be alive. Hurt like a son of a bitch. Got up and scrambled the rest of the way to Nitro. It took a long time but I found the coon.
If he was running this coon the whole way, it was probably one of the best jobs I've ever seen. If he ran fox a little, it was still a real nice job of switching over.