. St. Nicholas [serial]. reached gingerly into some old hollow stump andpulled out the smiling, unworried marsupial. tractions outside. Later he took occasion inthe moonlight to go back to his home stump. Somehow it was always a relief to me whenthe possum did that. It was much more funto go out the next night through the corn-fieldslooking for him than killing and eating himwould have been. Possums are good to eat,but eating is not the whole of life,—even to asmall boy,—and killing is bad A frosty night, a full moon,old worn-out rabbit hound,and a good companion —and we are off for the
. St. Nicholas [serial]. reached gingerly into some old hollow stump andpulled out the smiling, unworried marsupial. tractions outside. Later he took occasion inthe moonlight to go back to his home stump. Somehow it was always a relief to me whenthe possum did that. It was much more funto go out the next night through the corn-fieldslooking for him than killing and eating himwould have been. Possums are good to eat,but eating is not the whole of life,—even to asmall boy,—and killing is bad A frosty night, a full moon,old worn-out rabbit hound,and a good companion —and we are off for the per-simmon-trees that
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