Wie: The Opossum 
the fruit, which in a few weeks must render you so 
temptingly fat! ‘‘’Simmon” time brings in “’ possum” 
time, and from many a cabin the melodious negro 
voices, accompanied by banjo, accordion, or harmoni- 
con, are heard singing: 
‘¢?Possum am a cunnin’ thing, 
He rambles in de dark, 
Nothin’ ’tall disturb his min’ 
But to hyah my bulldog bark.” 
The hunting of the opossum in the South is usually 
done at night, the one important feature of the hunt 
being a good opossum dog. The opossum will take 
to a tree at the approach of the dog, and the dog 
should remain barking until the arrival of the hunting 
party. If the tree is not difficult to climb the opos- 
sum is soon captured, otherwise the tree must be 
felled or the game shot. The colored people enter 
into the sport with the greatest zest, and these hunting 
parties have merry times. 
The hunting of the opossum in the North is more 
frequently done in the daytime. The hunt is usually 
confined to the edge of a forest or large timber along 
streams and the more numerous the hollow trees the 
better. JI remember a hunt of this kind: I had been 
tramping about with my camera, and as I was passing 
through some large timber near a clearing on the 
