LETTEES FROM ALABAMA. 
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few moments, the attention of the bystanders ap- 
parently diverted from it, it would get on its legs 
and begin to creep slily away ; yet no sooner was 
an eye turned towards it, than it would crouch up, 
OPOSSUM. 
lie along motionless, with all its limbs supple, as 
if just dead; nor would any kicks, cuffs, or hand- 
lings avail to produce the least token of life, not 
the opening of an eyelid, or the moving of a foot. 
