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closely all the trees near, in a hickory bush fifty feet away we 

 found the possum, a young one the size of a rat, hardly enough, 

 it seemed, to make a trail. Thus in about an hour quite a range 

 in sizes had been caught. 



Another night while following a brushy creek bottom, we 

 came across a much-surprised possum. For almost a minute, ten 

 feet away he stood there in the glare of the lantern, his mouth 

 half open and teeth bared, bewildered by the light. Some dis- 

 tance down the creek came Bobby hard on the fresh trail. The 

 possum having by this time recovered his senses, made for the 

 creek, promptly rolled in to our great surprise, and swam across 

 as easily as a muskrat could have done. Bobby crossed over 



