Hunt the Coon
Source text
Section titled “Source text”This is an in-door game, founded on the familiar “Hunt the Thimble.”
We use a little dummy coon; either make it or turn a ready-made toy rabbit into one by adding tail and black mask, and cropping the ears.
All the players but one go out of the room. That one places the coon anywhere in sight, high or low, but in plain view; all come in and seek. The first to find it, sits down silently, and scores one. Each sits down, on seeing it, giving no clue to the others.
The first to score three coons is winner, usually. Sometimes we play till everyone but one has a coon; that one is the booby. The others are first, second, etc.
Sometimes each is given his number in order of finding it.
Then, after seven or eight coons, these numbers are added up, and the lowest is winner. If no coon is available use a thimble.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Ernest Thompson Seton, Boy Scouts Handbook: The Games (1911)
- Printed pages: 301–302
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 301
- Read the automatic translation: bsh-013