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oiliness, which makes it to a cultivated taste coarse and 
unpalatable. 
The negroes, on the contrary—and, by the way, they 
are all amateurs in the cooking art—when cooking for 
themselves, do much better. They bury the body up with 
sweet potatoes, and as the meat roasts, thus confined, the 
succulent vegetables draw out all objectionable tastes, 
and render the opossum “one of the greatest delica- 
cies in the world.”’ At least, so say a crowd of respect- 
able witnesses. We profess to have no experience in 
the matter, not yet having learned to sing with enthusiasm 
the common negro melody of 
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‘**Possum fat and ‘ tater. 
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