The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-09-04
OLE MReINNY ,possuM.
Uncle Sandy Tells the Story of How to
Ketch, Cook, and Eat 'EIn.
TTalbotton (Ga.) Era

Ketch, Cook, and Eat 'Em.
TTalbotton (Ga) Eral
Long years ago there used to come
through Talbot county negro trader,
O'Neal by name, from whom Hon. Henry
Persons cleaned the story of Uncle
Sandy's 'possum, being the modus oper-
andi of 'possum catching and eating as
told in the original language of the old
darby of "Old Virginny neber tire
"Jesso, boss, jesse, says Uncle Sandy,
"dat 'possum am curious varmint, shores
yer born, yit hit shorely am de sweets
of meat
How you cotch i'm and cook an eat
i'm? Ise jess gwine ter tell year.
Yer fuss go down dar in de ole pine
fieP whar we Glen up about ten years go,
an yer cut yer sum er dem fat ightered
roots out de ground from one er dem
stumps; den yer fOtches UNI hum an sets
UNI UP in de chimly corner fer ter dry
twel Sadday night cum, Wen dat night
comes yer jes tax dem lightered roots and
split 'em up and htes UNI, and takes yer ak
on yer shoulder and goes out de cabin do.
calls yer dog, and den 50 down de boss
lot branch. Yer go long fer bout er hour
an yer tink yer amt gwine ter ketch
muffin. Bimeby, near bout wen seben
stars way up yonder, yer lose yer dog.
miry tired. Yer tink fer sho yer amt
gwine ter ketch muffin. Yer gifts sleepy an
Yer eyes get hebby Yer long ways frum
hum. Yer start back dar, too, nifty
low spereted Yer call an call
dat dog, but he amt gwine cum no mo;
den yer goes on back toards hum and
bimeby yer gets dar. An yer dun tux
yer boy, Sam, wild yer, and when yer
gifts in de yard Sam he stops little vile ter
listen; den he Daddy, I ERE dat dog.
Yer say: ooh, hush yer fass, boy, yer doan
kno what yer talkin. But he say again:
Daddy, do ere dat dog sho.' Well, den
yer istins an yer 'eres er dog barkin wa
off in the woods, pears like about I've
miles off. Yer listins and yer 'eres EN-
again and dis time pears like he furder oil
den fore Sam said: Daddy. less go.
Yer stops and links. Yer mighty tired.
sho, but de boy beg So yer halter go. ser
starts Yer goes on pears like fore miles
and We dos fall down on er log. / er lay.
Sam, yer fool niger, Use not gwine er
nudder step. [ doan bleeb dats my dog,
and er doan bleeb de emmy 'possum der
don't 1 does. Use gwine! y er halter
git up an go. Dat dog barllin'
gifts dar, sho huff, des like
Sam say, de dog is dar, an dat possum is
Gar too De tree whar he up is one CT
desc little simmon trees and Samll soon
elem it an fotch brer poSsum down by de
de lips, fer e be big fine fellow. Den yer
take 'em an go rite back hum, an jess TO
yer git ter de door, yer take yer AK andle
an put EN- cross e ne'k an brek e mex
by pullin' oh e tail. Den yer TEX i'm in
'ouse, and de ole oman done left great big
fireplace heap full hickory ashes. Yer
takes de shubble, and opens big hole in
dem pile er ashes and drops dat possum in
dar, an when yer take i'm outer dat de
ha'r deS pull off DIES es easy, an yer put
i'm in some hot water and scrapes i'm wild
er casenife, and he Gums clean. Den yer
takes out der intrals, hang i'm up and
wash i'm good, den yer salts i'm down,
and puts i'm away twel Monday morning.
Monday morning cum. de ole oman
tex i'm out an parbile i'm good, den she
git bout PEEK er taters and den slices dem
taters an piles 'em all over i'm, an den
she baks i'm twell de grease run all fru
dem taters. Den she ticks i'm out an puts
i'm in de big dish an sets i'm on de din
ner table wild de taters pile all ODER i'm
Eyer cum ter dinner fun de tiel, an yer
walks in an sets down ter de table, but
yer doan eat dat posSum den No, sab,
doan yer eat i'm den. Arter dinner yer
DIES takes i'm an der taters an sets i'm up
in de cupbard.
"Bimebye yer Gums HON fun de days
work ter supper. You're nifty worn out,
fer yer been wuking in de feel hard all
day. Yer sets down odts;de de cabin do
and takes yer pipe and smokes. Fore
long Sam say: ) ably. upper reddy.'
But yer DIES set dar yer do IN go in Yer
wait twell de ole oman and the chiliin
git fru eaten and de chillun go off ter bed
Den yer knocks der ashes out yer pipe
and goes in. Yer owes de leetle 9quar
table front de fer and puts yer char close
up dar by it. Den yer goes ter de cup
bard and gifts de possm and Eaters. Yer
puts 'em on de tai e. err tells de ole
oman ter go on out ii; yer locks de do
Den dar yer is. GU an de rossum all by
yeerself togedder. err frows yer ole hat
on de flo, takes yer seat in dat char by de
table, and GIBBS yer sole ter yer God