possum

You'd say she's as 43 gray as a 'possum, an' as wrinkled as a burnt boot.

The 'possum is found from Connecticut to Florida and westerly to California.

That is why Possum pretends to be dead when he finds the hunters after him.

"There is one spoon missing," said Mr. Possum, who had been counting the spoons.

It's more of a coma, something like the hibernation of a bear or a possum.

They'd cook it like they did possum, bake it with taters or make dumplings.

Had Black Beard been playing 'possum when he ought to have been laid out?

They did not get any 'possum meat, and perhaps they would not have liked that.

Him eaty da' 'possum, him eaty da' pop-co'n, him roas'n da' taty. '

He belongs to an old Southern family and his name is just possum.