I got this friend. He said to me the other day, “Joe, I got this yeller dog, the best coon hound in the State of Maine, and probably all of North America. The thing about my yeller dog, he never needs coaching. He can figure things out himself. You see what I do is I whittle out a board the size of the coon I want and I lean it against the old pine tree out back. That yeller dog, he’d study that board, and then he’d go out in the woods and catch him a coon to fit it. Only problem is, a week ago, my wife leaned her ironing board against that pine tree – and we ain’t seen that yeller dog since. I’m curious to see what he is going to drag home.”

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