Show I POSSUM LIVES IN TOMB I Burrowed Into Grave and Made Home I In Coffin I DlcksoniTcnn While some colored col-ored men wore digging a grave at a burying ground out in the country from Dickson an incident happened that has completely severed the friendship friend-ship of people of their race and the Tennessee opossum In this neck ot tho woods Some dogs that accompanied accom-panied the diggers bayed at a nearby grave Investigation revealed that a smoothly worn hole extended from the side of tho mound to tho Interior Into the hole a switch was thrust and was answered by a hldooussepulchral growl The switch was given a vigor oils twist and withdrawn and out with It came n big fat opossum The old varmint had burrowed into the grave gnawed through the coffin and there made Its nest The grave was a little less than a year old The old fellow was almost white and gave evidence of having been an Inhabitant of the tomb for some time |