THE OPOSSUM 
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limbs and leaves up in the trees. She will eat ripe pen 
simmons when we go away.” 
The party started back to the first tree, where they 
had left the first fat opossum on the ground. But 
when the people got there he was gone! 
"I tole you so! I knowed he’d do dat!” cried the 
oldest Negro angrily. “Aw shuh, we done got so 
het up looking at de mammy and chillun, we forgot 
all ’bout dis one! Now he done quit sullin’ and run 
off. Aw shuh!” 
