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Show oo A COON AND A CARL'OAD OF POSSUMS i Many of the restaurants of Ogden wjll have "possum" on their menu cards for Sunday and Christmas Possum Pos-sum and sweet potatoes eaten to the tune of "My Old Kentucky Home," will carry many a southerner back to his boyhood days in the south, and not a few of tho colored people of the community are preparing to conjure con-jure up thoughts of tho south by eating eat-ing possum on Christmas. This invasion from the south has boon made, possible by 6eo. Barry of tho Ogden Commission company who had a carload of the opossums Bhlpped in. A colored gentleman called on Mr. Barry on Friday to obtain prices and to examine the possums. "Say, Mister Barry," said the gentleman, "how much are these har possums9" "Dollar each," was the reply. "I'll be in suro this afternoon. Sao me two." The man from tho south called on time to inform the commission man that ho had failed to make the raise, and his tale of woo was as bald and as long as a possum's tail, but Mr. Barry was not to be moved to an act of charity, jn fact the manager of the commission house was holding off intontionally, to test the prospective purchaser's, love of possum as measured meas-ured in dollars and cents. It was not more than an hour later when a "coon" with a face all smiles, carried two fat possums from the commission house, "Say Mr. Barry,v said the purchaser, pur-chaser, as he was departing, ''do you know bow- to skin a possum? Done you skin him. Just put it In a bath of lye water and when tho skin am all gone, and the fat am in sight, wash "em, put 'oin in the oven vIth yams, nnd then call in your friends. Say, but possum am fine!" |