Anybody know the old joke (and I mean old) about some city guy who goes racoon hunting with a monkey and challenges the locals to match their coonhounds to his monkey, as far as racoon hunting skill.
I can still remember the punchline, but can't recall all the details of the joke:
The punchline: Yeah, the monkey hates coons, but the one thing he hates worse than coons is a lying coonhound.
The story as I heard it was by Jerry Clower and could probably be found on one of his old recordings. It involved giving the monkey a revolver and a flashlight, allowing it to climb the tree, find the coon, and shoot it.
It seems that the dogs indicated they had a coon up a tree, the monkey was sent up with light and revolver, looked all over for the coon, and upon not finding the coon, descended the tree and shot the "lying coon hound."