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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 103, 25 January 1939, Page 15

“Little rascals, and remarkably intelligent." is (lie opinion of opossums held by a woman camper who returned to Auckland after a holiday on Hie West Coast. “1 woke one night to hear a regular ‘swisssb-plop. swissshplop’ from somewhere near at hand,” she said. "I could not make it out for a time, and then I discovered that some half a dozen opossums were using the roof of my tent for a sort of toboggan slide. They would climb along the ridge pole and one after Hie other go glissading down the slope of Hie canvas into the fern alongside. 1 waited till one was In Hie middle of a slide, (hen heaved al Hie canvas with both bands. The little fellow sailed through Hie air Io land a dozen yards away—swearing like a. trooper.”