# Judge Geo. A. Cooke explained — Poetry

> Chapter companion for Poetry by Ring Lardner.

## What happens

A brief, humorous poem about Judge Geo. A. Cooke, a Chicago lawyer who enjoyed hunting raccoons along the Mississippi River until a bee, sharing a tree with a raccoon, stung him on the lip.

## Themes in this chapter

### Humor and Satire

The poem uses a lighthearted, rhyming anecdote about a judge's hunting mishap with a bee.

## Character check-ins

### George K. Schmidt

The subject of the poem, a Chicago lawyer and judge who hunts coons.

## Key lines

> The judge used to pack up his grip And hunt coons on the old Mississip’, Till one time a bee, Who shared the coon’s tree, Gave his honor a kiss on the lip.

Judge Cooke would travel with his bag to hunt raccoons along the Mississippi, until a bee that lived in the same tree as a raccoon stung him on the lip.

_Summarizes the entire poem's narrative._

## Links

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