The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-08-20
"DAT POSSUM."
Possumolo.y of ye Old Virginey Time
How to Ketch, Clean, Cook, and
Eat En-.

Possunology of ye old yirginey Time
How to Ketch, Clean, Cook. and
| Eat En-.
| 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 operandi OF possum catching
and eating as told in the original lam
| guage of the old darky of ''Ole Nir-
| giney neber tire.
''Jesso, boss, jesso," says Uncle
Sando, dat 'possum am cur Gus var
mint, shores yer born, yit hit shoroly
| am de sweets of meat"
''How you cotch i'm and cook and
| eat i'm? lse jess gwine ter tell yer"
Yer fuss 90 down in de ole pine
tieP where We Glen up about ten years
go, and yer cut yer sum er dem fat
'lightered roots out de ground from
one er dem stumpS; den yer fotches UNI
hum and sets um up in de chimly cor
ner fer ter dry twel Sadday night cum.
Wen dat night comes yer jes tux dem
hghtered roots and split EN- up and
lites um, and takes yer AK on yer
shoulder and goes out de cabin do,
calls yer dog, and den 90 down the
hoss lot branch. Yer go long fer bout
er hour and Yer tiuk yer amt gwine
ter ketch muffin. Bimebv, near bout
wen seben stars way up yonder, yer
lose yer dog. He done clean gone fer
sho. Yer gifts nifty tired. Yer tink
fer sho you yer amt gwine to ketch
nuiiiu. Yer gifts sleepy and yer eyes
git hebby. Yer long ways frum hum.
Yer start back dar, too, nifty low sper-
eted. Yer call and call dat dog, but ne
ain gwine cum no mo; den yer goes on
back toards hum, and bimeby yer gifts
dar An yer dun tux yer boy, Sam,
wild yer. and when Yer gifts in de yard
Sam he stops lttlc while ter listen; den
he Daddy, ere dat dog Yer say:
oh, hush yer fass, boy, yer doan kno
what yer talkin.' But he says agin;
Daddy, DO ere dat dog sho.' Well,
den yer listins and yer 'eres er dog
barkin way of i'll the woods, pears like
about five miles of. Yer liStins and
yer 'eros en- AGAIN and dis time pears
like he furder OF den fore. Sam saws,
Daddy, less GOT Yer stops and links.
Yer mighty tired, sho, but de boy beo
so. yer halter 60. Yer starts. Yer
goes on pears like fore miles and yer
des fall down on er log. Yer say,
Sam, yer fool niger, Ise not gwine
ca nudder step. | doan bleeb dats NV
dog, and er doan bleeb de enny pos
sum der needer' Sam saws, Wen.
daddy eff yer don't does, Use gwiner
Yer halter git up an 90. Dat dog
barkin' on des de same; an YER soon
gifts dar, an Sho nuf, des like Sam say.
do ri l- Il jn+
too. De tree whar he up is one er desc
little simmon trees and Sam'll soon
elem it an fotch brer possum down bv
de tall Yer look at the 'possum an
smeck de lips, fer e be big fine fellow.
Den yer take 'em an 90 rite back hum,
an jess 10 yer git ter de door, yer take
yer AK 'andle an put 'em cross g mex
an bre'k e mex by pullin' oh e tail,
Zen yer tex I'M IN 'ouse, and de Ole
oman done left great big fireplace hean
full hickory ashes. Yer takes de sbnh-
bic, and opens big hole in dem pile er
ashes, and drops dat 'possum in dar
an when yer take i'm outer dat de hair
DIES pull off des es easy, an YER put i'm
IN some hot water and scrapes i'm wild
er easenife, and he Gums clean. Dec
yer takes out der intrals, hang i'm nm
ana wash i'm good, den yer salts Inn
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 9t bout pek er taters and den
slices dem taters an piles 'em all
over I'M, an den she baks i'm tweu do
grease run all fru dem taters. Den She
tekS lm out an puts i'm in do bio
aiSn, an sets i'm on de dinner table
via de taters pile all ober i'm.
L er cum ter dinner fun de fiel. an
yer walks in an sets down ter de table.
put yer doan eat dat 'possum den! No.
san, doan yer eat i'm deni Arter
dinner yer des takes i'm an de taters
an sets I'M up in de cupbard.
'blmeby yer Gums HON fun dc dav,s
work ter supper You're mjtv WON
out, fer yer been wukinc in de fel harJ
ali day. Yer sets down outside do
caoih DO and tekes yer pipe and
Fore long Sam say; Dad
9y, supper reddy. But yer des set
uar; yer doan go in. Yer wait twell de
ole oman and the chillun git fru eaten
ana de chIllun 60 off ter bed. Den yer
KNOCKS der ashes out yer pipe and goes
H. Ter moves dc leetle sduar table
ront de fier and puts yer char close up
lar oy 1t. Den yer goes ter de cup
oard and glts de possum and taters.
er puts EN- on der table. Yer tells de
,ie oman ter go on out an yer loks de
10. Den dar yer is. You an de pos
um all by yeeself togedder. Yer frows
..er ole hat on de flo, takes yer seat in
lat char by de, table, and gibs yer sole
er yer Capitalization Ca Era.