. St. Nicholas [serial] . H3° NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Oct. PfNKYS PREFERENCE. Most wild animals stoutly resist all of ourwell intentioned efforts to bring them up indoor-yard ways, and take to the woods againwith the first opportunity. I have tamed manysquirrels, but, sooner or later, every one ofthem has escaped to the wilds. I have neverknown but one wild animal that wanted to bedomesticated, that refused to stay in the woodswhen taken there ; and this was a little possum,named, from the color of his long nose, Pinky. He was one of a family of nine that I caught,several springs
. St. Nicholas [serial] . H3° NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Oct. PfNKYS PREFERENCE. Most wild animals stoutly resist all of ourwell intentioned efforts to bring them up indoor-yard ways, and take to the woods againwith the first opportunity. I have tamed manysquirrels, but, sooner or later, every one ofthem has escaped to the wilds. I have neverknown but one wild animal that wanted to bedomesticated, that refused to stay in the woodswhen taken there ; and this was a little possum,named, from the color of his long nose, Pinky. He was one of a family of nine that I caught,several springs ago, and carried home. In thecourse of a few weeks his brothers and sisters. he took his saucer ofas if nothing were adopted by admiring friends ; but Pinky,because he was the runt, and looked verysorry and forlorn, was not chosen. He wasleft with me. I kept him, for his mother wasdead, and fed him on milk until he caught upto the size of the biggest mother-fed possumof his age in the woods. Then I took himdown to the old stump in the brier-patch wherehe was born, and left him to shift for thrown into a brier-patch was exactlywhat tickled Brer Rabbit half to death, andany one would have supposed that being putgently down in his home brier-patch would havetickled this little possum still more. Not he !I went home and forgot him. But the next morning, when breakfast was preparing, whatshould we see but Pinky, curled up in the fea-ther cushion of the kitchen settee, fast asleep. He had found his way back during the night,had climbed in through the trough of the pump-box, and had gone to sleep like the rest of thefamily. He gaped and smiled and looke
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