Have a look, will you, Lanyard, like a good fellow, and make sure our little friend over there isn't playing 'possum on us.

You can't pet a possum.

Well! we track that old "possum" to his lair, man?

Once I thought to scent a 'possum, but the musky taint came from a rotting log; and a stale fox might have crossed to windward and I not noticed, so blunted had grown my nose in this unfamiliar Northern world.

He could hear old Mrs. Possum cleaning house and scolding the little Possums who kept climbing up on her back.

By night also the blacks, with the whites occasionally joining in, sought the canny 'possum and the embattled 'coon; in spare times by day they hied their curs after the fleeing Brer Rabbit, or built and baited seductive traps for turkeys and quail; and fishing was available both by day and by night.

About forty feet away, upon the shore, stood two 'possums, gazing with white, triangular faces upon our stranded craft.

I hate this dairying, it's too slow for a funeral: there would be more life in trapping 'possums out on Timlinbilly.

That onery Possum has clean fo'gotten what Ah just done tole him, and if we uns am going to have any dinner, Ah cert'nly have got to flax 'round right smart spry mahself!" Old Mrs. Possum chased the eight little Possums into the house and warned them not to so much as put their heads outside the door while she was gone.

I tuk my ax an' dog 'long wid me an' de dog, he treed a possum right in de graveyard.

Mother cooked my food after stopping work on the farm for the day, I never ate possum.

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.