Then the dogs exploded outside, probably at some henroost-robbing opossum, and had a chevy through the cocos till they tree'd their game, and bayed it to their hearts' content.

" As the small opossum held in pouch maternal Grasps the nutrient organ whence the term mammalia, So the unknown stranger held the wire electric, Sucking in the current.

The opossum scampers up a tree, carrying all her numerous family on her back, and they do not fall off because each infant is securely moored by its own tail to the uplifted tail of its mother.

The opossum is a very primitive beast, and so early and useful an invention should, one would think, have been spread widely in after time; but there appears to be some difficulty in developing muscles at the thin end of a long tail, for the animals that have turned it into a grasping organ are few and are widely scattered.

" =262.= THE OPOSSUM.

We can imagine to ourselves the surprise with which the opossum was regarded by Europeans, when they first saw it.

They have a mild and innocent look, and are sleek, and in fine condition, and this is the only age in which the word pretty can be applied to the Opossum.

Hunting the Opossum is a very favorite amusement among domestics and field laborers on our Southern plantations, of lads broke loose from school in the holidays, and even of gentlemen, who are sometimes more fond of this sport than of the less profitable and more dangerous and fatiguing one of hunting the gray fox by moonlight.

Although we have never participated in an Opossum hunt, yet we have observed that it afforded much amusement to the sable group that in the majority of instances make up the hunting party, and we have on two or three occasions been the silent and gratified observers of the preparations that were going on, the anticipations indulged in, and the excitement apparent around us.

I have dabbled my whiskers in Guava jellyhave drunk rack at Delhi, and at New South Wales I have enjoyed the luxuries of Kangaroo soup and Opossum gravy.

At two they dine on what is usual in England, with a variety of american dishes, such as bear, opossum, racoon, &c.

The best method of cooking the squirrel is in a ragout; this I learnt of a french epicure, who always speaks with rapture of this bonne bouche: it has a high game flavour, and is justly thought by the Americans to be an excellent dish; but we have many English, who, through mere prejudice, never tasted this animal; their antipathy also extends to bear, opossum, racoon, and cat-fish:"Oh!"

Another rattlesnake which he killed in Central America had just swallowed an opossum which proved to be of a species new to science.

He naïvely tells a story about a native who killed an opossum, and after eating the meat, threw the intestines to his wife.

As I drew her opossum rug over her poor emaciated body the look of gratitude which came from her dying eyes told me in language more eloquent than words that beneath that dark and dying exterior there was a soul which in a few hours angels would delight to honor.

Another method of obtaining a wife by magic is by means of a charmed chilara, or head-band of opossum fur.

The native's twelve-year-old wife had caught an opossum, roasted it, and, impelled by hunger, had begun to eat it instead of saving it for her masteran atrocious crime.

" A HORRIBLE CUSTOM Suppose this young wife had saved the opossum for her husband.

He took his spear and opossum coat and hastened toward the columns of smoke.

The reply was, 'He eats so-and-so,' mentioning kangaroo, opossum, or emu, or some other game.

Beautiful Opossum.

The woodcutters one day cut a small brown opossum in half: it seemed to be a very rare if not a new animal; but unfortunately the head part could not be found.

Several women were observed having their faces completely concealed by their opossum-skin mantles.

Beautiful Opossum.

I must further allude to a most beautiful little opossum which inhabits these parts.

One of our crew killed a 'possum yesterday, and another boat stopped near us this morning, and seems likely to lie as long as we do on the sand-bar.

But I fancy he believes that while he is playing 'possum here, Emperor William, who is not especially renowned for patience, will settle the question of the succession without asking any one's adviceas, I must say, he seems to have a perfect right to do.

Jeremy and Narayan Singh, being both in the British Army, were liable to be disciplined, and I might be requested to leave the country, if we should happen to blunder and tree the wrong 'possum, revenge being more than usually sweet to the official disturbed in the pursuit of unauthorized "diplomacy."

[n] Non possum ferre, Quirites, Graecam urbem: [

habere fores, Hoc Veneri speculum; nolo me cernere qualis Sum nunc, nec possum cernere qualis eram.

" "No," she answered, "but your papa is very sick, and I want you to go for Dr. Possum."

When will Dr. Possum come?" "Buddy is going for him at once," Mrs. Pigg said.

He was frightened, and I guess you'd have been, too, but he was brave, and he made up his mind he'd go for Dr. Possum.

The little guinea pig boy went on, and on, through the woods, toward Dr. Possum's home, and, after a while, he was not so frightened as he had been at first.

"I'm going after Dr. Possum, because my papa is sick," said Buddy.

"If you please, kind sir," answered the little boy guinea pig, "I'm going for Dr. Possum for my papa, who has a terrible pain.

"So you are going for Dr. Possum, eh?

"But, speaking of doctors, I know where Dr. Possum lives, and I'll take you right to his house in less than no time.

I'll stand still, and then I'll take you right to Dr. Possum's house.

in a short time the little guinea pig boy was at Dr. Possum's house.

" So Dr. Possum, with his medicine box, climbed upon Gup's back, behind Buddy, and he helped hold the little guinea pig on during the ride home.

Faster and faster went Gup through the dark woods his hoofs going "tat-a-tat-too," and he didn't bump into a tree or a bush, and he did not jar off Buddy or Dr. Possum, and pretty soon there they were safe at Dr. Pigg's house, and Dr. Possum gave Buddy's papa some medicine that soon made him better.

Faster and faster went Gup through the dark woods his hoofs going "tat-a-tat-too," and he didn't bump into a tree or a bush, and he did not jar off Buddy or Dr. Possum, and pretty soon there they were safe at Dr. Pigg's house, and Dr. Possum gave Buddy's papa some medicine that soon made him better.

Then Gup, the kind horsie, took Dr. Possum safely back through the dark woods as straight as a string.

Persimmon Jim, the 'possum.

T. S. Eliot, Old possum's book of practical cats; Gertrude Stein, The world is round.

Christine Noble Govan (A); 19Feb68; R429527. Sweet 'possum valley.

Old Possum's book of practical cats.

SEE Eliot, T. S. ELIOT, T. S. Old Possum's book of practical cats.

Possum money comes easy; Texas-Oklahoma ed.