was peeking out, immensely enjoying this first 

 adventure. The quizzing snouts of six were 

 poked out in a bunch from the cradle-pouch, 

 while the other five mites were upon their 

 mother's back, where they had been playing 

 Jack-and-the-beanstalk up and down her tail. 



Historically, also, the possum is a conundrum. 

 He has not a single relative on this continent, 



" She was standing off a dog." 



except those on exhibition in zoological gardens. 

 He left kith and kin behind in Australia when 

 he came over to our country. How he got here, 

 and when, we do not know. Clouds hang heavy 

 over the voyages of all the discoverers of Amer- 

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