MICKY POSSUM

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 18

MICKY POSSUM

(Original). After a long, long journey, he found called him, took a look round his new himself pat in a wire cage. For two apartments. There were two looms, days and nights he stayed there, but one his dining-room and the other his on the third day he was taken for an- bedroom, the latter, having some straw other long journey over the hills. He in for him to sleep on, while there were was still wondering where his mother two little doors dividing the rooms, was when' he found himself in a dif- There was also a little verandah in the ferent place, front for him to have, sunbaths, so he A little girl came and took him, and was really quite happy and satisfied, he was put in another cage. By this Such times he had with the little time he was tired and very hungry, so girl, for he slept all day, and in the he was very glad when, from his cage, evening when she brought great armhe saw the girl coming'with her hands fuls of food to him, she used to give full of food. him his freedom for half an hour. She stroked Wee 'Possum and They would play hide and go seek crooned to him, then gave him his among the gooseberry bushes, and when food and left him. Micky tired of that, he would show the, 'Possum looked curiously at his food, little girl some tricks. ' He would hang' and thought everything looked good by his tail from a branch of a tree, and a,nd inviting. There were two apples, do all sorts of funny things. Then milky thistle, and chickweed, a little back to his cage and his supper, piece of cake; and some tea leaves One day he was taken for a walk sprinkled with sugar. and suddenly espied a manuka tr-ee. Wee 'Possum ate every bit. The He ran to it and scrambled up to the apples were delicious, also the cake, very top. But alas, it began to rain i milky thistle and chickweed; and how and he was so cold up there. He had lovely the tea leaves wore! And what half a mind to go down to the welcome he couldn't drink was simply glorious arms of his little mistress, when sud- j to paddle in! de.nly he saw a fur-trimmed glove, a Micky 'Possum, as. the little girl thing he loved to play with, so ho;