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  • Hunting the Opossum is a very favorite amusement among domestics and field laborers on our Southern plantations, of lads broke loose from school in the holidays, and even of gentlemen, who are sometimes more fond of this sport than of the less profitable and more dangerous and fatiguing one of hunting the gray fox by moonlight.

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • The Opossum is the only animal in this country the young of which are carried around in the mother's pocket, and the only one which has a prehensile tail; that is, one used for coiling around and clinging to branches, and the like.

    Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

  • It is a general term which in English translates to Possum where I am from, or more properly "Opossum".

    what' s the english equivalent 2002

  • It was Ira Aldridge, after all, rather than performers of Tuckey (see Cox again), who ultimately became the most famous in England for performing "Opossum" on stage, often apart from Obi, as he continued to give voice to the conditions of a still-enslaved race well into the 1860s.

    Directing Obi in the Year 2000 2002

  • : It is a general term which in English translates to Possum where I am from, or more properly "Opossum".

    what' s the english equivalent 2002

  • On June 25 the attack on the Taku forts began with the removal of the iron stakes forming the outer barrier by the steamer "Opossum," and this part of the operations was performed without a shot being fired.

    China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

  • : Best, Sean:):: It is a general term which in English translates to Possum where I am from, or more properly "Opossum".

    what' s the english equivalent 2002

  • Best, Sean:): It is a general term which in English translates to Possum where I am from, or more properly "Opossum".

    what' s the english equivalent 2002

  • As you can imagine, it even distracted me from the business of Opossum penises, belly, nipple and pouch area jiggery pokery!

    Neighborhood Opossum | clusterflock 2009

  • Opossum Openis (For Brandon Hobson) [Insert into post.]

    Opossum Openis (For Brandon Hobson) | clusterflock 2009

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