Fatty Coon in "A Terrible Fright"

And then his father and the hired man picked up their axes; and standing on opposite sides of the tall chestnut tree, they began to chop. How the chips did fly! At the very first blow Fatty knew that this was an entirely different sort of chopping from that which Johnnie had attempted the night before. The great tree shook as if it knew that it would soon come crashing down upon the ground. And as for Fatty Coon, he could not see but that he must fall when the tree did. He, too, shivered and shook. And he wrapped himself all the way around a limb and hung on as tight as ever he could.