Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 88
tastethat they could not take time to pick out theseeds, but swallowed the persimmons whole,until they simply had to quit. The possums also know these sugary trees;their tooth is as sweet as ours. Here, nosingabout on the ground or hanging by hind feetand tails in the laden limbs, the boy will… … PERSIMMONS THE FAVORITE FOOD OF POSSUMS. 76 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS, [Nov. they are too slow : nor yet on his wits ; for theyare still slower. He trusts very largely ,to stump-holes, to luck, and to his dis- $Tm$tinguished slowness. No one is ever in a hurry with ^Tv:,. <8»a possum.…
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