The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24

A biz, burly 'possum. hoary with the fat that comes from polkberries in August paw-paws in September, and persimmons after october's frost, has made saccharine the astringent juice Of that noble fruit. Take, say. bird like that butcher him as Caesar should have been carved. let his only lordly carcass take the frost of at least two fine nights after
 --chili November's suriy blasts
 Make field and forest bare.
 Take that fellow. cook him with an art commensurate with his aristocracy in the realm of game, and you have dish At to have been served from Juno's kitchen when Jupiter had for guests Jason's mighty crew.
 Catch this gentleman by shaking him out of a sapiing in which he had been "treed" by q dog of the name of Hector; but on no account allow Hector or other more plebeian dorg to worry him. Have a split hickory stick and insert MT. 'Possun's tail in 1t. and so carry him home in triumph and confine him in an empty barrel in the smokeh ouse. MT. M. B. Morton, of Nashville. Tenn, says the dorg should be named "Cink er."
 The next morning bright and early, give that 'possum inta~ the custody of
 
 old school, who understands his busi- ness. He will lay the handle of the ax across the varmint's neck and put an enormous foot on the hickory Of 1t, on either side, and then take the animal by the tail and pull with all his might until the neck is broken. That Is the way to kill a 'possum. have heard or barbarians shooting them. I never saw 1t. and would not for any consideration allow it fin my presence. Meanwhile have A cauldron of boiling water at hand. in which had been somewhat dis solved a small quantity of fresh nick ory ashes right out Of the hreplace. Blood in sufficiency had come from the ears and mouth of the 'possum, if the playfellow, Alec, could turn the trick to an exactitude-and now, while the car cass Is yet warm, plunge him into the scalding water and pick him bare of every hair. and do 1t rapidly. Then dress him and put him away to cool. That night. the following night, and even the third night. let him take the | frost in the open air, and he would be all the better frozen stff.
 And here is the way old Aunt Car'line used to cook him. She boiled him till | he was tender as butter in water that had floating around sundry pods of hot | red pepper. rms Decdihe hhpEeBHoeSu with the fat of the varmint, and she stewed it to the consistency between | soup and gravy. after lifting his maj | esty out oft.
 Now, here was where Aunt Car'line and her lord and master. Uncle Archie | could not agree. The old woman want ed to put him in an oven with sweet taters and brown him. Archie preferred roasting the taters in the members and barbecuing the 'possum before the fire 1 bathing him every five minutes in the
 gravy that resulted from his boiling | and finishing off the taters In the over
 in which was first poured the gravy. have tried both. Soloman could not
 have made judgment betwfxed the diff
 ferent methods of Aunt Car'line ant
 Uncle Archie. Either would cause an!
 common man to swallow his tongu'
 about the middle of the feast
 But that is not all Man loves breat
 as well as 'possum. And how. at Hal
 loween. is the season of the lordl.
 pumpkin. The barbarians of New Eng
 land degrade this gentleman by turn ing him into pie. Civilized folk brinl