Show A stowaway and her family A south american opossum had no passport and no passenger money so she packed herself into a consignment ot of fruit at costa rica and went to england 1 on the tha way her five babies were 1 born great was the surprise of those who found among the fruit a little reddish brown creature about the size elze of a rat who carried her little ones on her back with their tiny tails twisted around her six tall for or safety instead of sending them to the tha police station like most stowaways the port authorities dispatched the family to the north staffordshire field museum at hanley anley II in spite of nil all the mother opossums sums care tile young opossums sums died but mrs opossum who has now been in england for some coma time Is still in the best of health |