. Animal snapshots and how made . f opossums about his place andthat when he discovered anything of special interesthe would let me know. One morning I received wordthat an opossum was in the chicken house. Camerain hand I soon reached the spot and found that theopossum had just completed a full breakfast uponfresh eggs. Leading from the chicken house into theyard was a small door; I focused upon this and thenopened it. The opossum slowly came forth, andwhen he was in full view I pressed the bulb, andthe old robber was taken. The next week I was summoned again by the farmerand this time I phot
. Animal snapshots and how made . f opossums about his place andthat when he discovered anything of special interesthe would let me know. One morning I received wordthat an opossum was in the chicken house. Camerain hand I soon reached the spot and found that theopossum had just completed a full breakfast uponfresh eggs. Leading from the chicken house into theyard was a small door; I focused upon this and thenopened it. The opossum slowly came forth, andwhen he was in full view I pressed the bulb, andthe old robber was taken. The next week I was summoned again by the farmerand this time I photographed an opossum while hewas feasting upon a nest of hens eggs. But it is in the South, on his native heath, thatthe opossum reaches perfection and his greatest him the glowing October sun, and the silveryfrosts of November, have developed the delicious The Opossum 71 flavor and fragrance of the persimmon. Through allthe painted autumnal woods the opossum finds spreadfor him by the lavish hand of Nature this sumptuous. Feasting on Eggs banquet of golden fruit. From twilight until theapproach of day, the greedy little creature feeds uponthe persimmons. O, heedless opossum! Could you but see into thefuture you would not feed thus recklessly upon the 72 The Opossum the fruit, which in a few weeks must render you sotemptingly fat! Simmon time brings in possumtime, and from many a cabin the melodious negrovoices, accompanied by banjo, accordion, or harmoni-con, are heard singing: Possum am a cunnin thing,He rambles in de dark,Nothin tall disturb his minBut to hyah my bulldog bark. The hunting of the opossum in the South is usuallydone at night, the one important feature of the huntbeing a good opossum dog. The opossum will taketo a tree at the approach of the dog, and the dogshould remain barking until the arrival of the huntingparty. If the tree is not difficult to climb the opos-sum is soon captured, otherwise the tree must befelled or the game shot. The colored people
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