CHAPTER XXIII 



OPOSSUMS AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS 



MYSTERIES AND FABLES SURROUNDING THE BIRTH OF THIS 



ANIMAL OPOSSUM HUNTING AND OPOSSUM EATING A 



WEASEL INSPECTS WILD LANDS THE WEASEL AND A 

 CROW'S NEST WEASEL BOXES WITH A MASTIFF AN 



ANIMATED PHONOGRAPH FROM PENNSYLVANIA WHO 

 TELLS A WEASEL'S STORY A FOUR FOOT BLACK BASS A 

 SEA SERPENT WE SEE WHAT WE THINK WE SEE SOME 

 GENUINE NATURE FAKING THE WONDERFUL KILL-A-LOO 



BIRD STORY IN PICTURES OF TREE BARKERS. 



BORN BLIND AND DEAF. 



Australia seems to be a spot set aside by nature 

 for experiments in curious forms of animal life. 

 By some means, in the far distant past, a repre- 

 sentative of that singular order, the marsupials, 

 reached North America, where it is still to be 

 found in abundance, a source of wonder to the 

 ignorant and a puzzle to men of science. It was 

 not until 1848 that the mysteries and fables 

 shrouding the birth of this animal were swept away 

 by Bachman and some of his friends, who, by dili- 

 gent work and patient experiment, set aside for- 

 ever the wild theories of such men as Valentine, 

 Marcgrave, Piso, Beverly, Pennant and others, 

 who held that the young of this creature grew upon 



