. The encyclopaedia of sport. bundancein the locality chosen. I remember one nightthat our party got thirteen possums at QuanticoIsland, some thirty miles down the Potomacfrom Washington. A secretary of the BritishEmbassy and a professor of the SmithsonianInstitution accompanied me down, under theguidance of a Washington friend, who hadspent a year or two in his early boyhood as akind of amateur bushwhacker in the Confederatearmy. In the north, coons hibernate, but frequentlycome out and wander around over the snow ifthe weather grows mild. I once got one invery deep snow in northern Maine, sp
. The encyclopaedia of sport. bundancein the locality chosen. I remember one nightthat our party got thirteen possums at QuanticoIsland, some thirty miles down the Potomacfrom Washington. A secretary of the BritishEmbassy and a professor of the SmithsonianInstitution accompanied me down, under theguidance of a Washington friend, who hadspent a year or two in his early boyhood as akind of amateur bushwhacker in the Confederatearmy. In the north, coons hibernate, but frequentlycome out and wander around over the snow ifthe weather grows mild. I once got one invery deep snow in northern Maine, spying it asI was riding on the mail sled that ran out ofIsland Falls. Both the coon and possum, beingnocturnal beasts, and hiding closely during the daylight, often exist in some numbers, even,in thickly settled localities, provided there stillremain considerable patches of woodland. Igave my eldest small son, when he had justpassed his fifth birthday, his first experience inthe chase, by an exciting and successful im- ;-^,. I^U-e^V \W R.^CCOON. promptu coon hunt, near a little pond beside-the wood-pile, a couple of hundred yards frommy stable at Sagamore Hill. One cold Thanks-giving, two or three years later, he and I cele-brated our return from a long walk, taken forthe purpose of chopping out an overgrownbridle-path, by the capture of a possum, afterdark, in the woods but two or three hundred-yards from the house. Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright, , AUSTRALIAN—The so-called possums of Australia are, it may be-premised without dipping deeply into theiranatomical peculiarities, quite distinct fromthe true North American opossums treated ofin the foregoing remarks, the differences con-sisting mainly in their bushy tails and the unioiiof the toes of the hind feet, from which the-Australian opossums are more properly de-nominated phalangers. Opossum-shooting ranks high among the-national pastimes of Australia, and the youngcolonial, as soon as he is old enough to
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