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Updated: May 29, 2025
Mary called 'Mr Wilson' to have a shot, and I made a worse fool of myself by sulking. If it hadn't been a blooming Jackaroo I wouldn't have minded so much. Next evening the Jackaroo and one or two other chaps and the girls went out 'possum-shooting. Mary went. I could have gone, but I didn't.
And he growled a lot because Mary wanted him to eat his fish without a knife, 'and that sort of Tommy-rot. When he'd finished he took his gun, and the black boy, and the dogs, and went out 'possum-shooting. When we were alone Mary climbed into the buggy to try the seat, and made me get up alongside her.
There are now regular autumn wine sales at Melbourne and Geelong, at which large quantities are sold and good prices realised. A favourite sport in Australia is 'possum-shooting. The Australian opossum is a marsupial quadruped, living in trees and feeding on insects, eggs, and fruits.
The proper time for 'possum-shooting is at night, when the moon is nearly at her full, and one can see about almost as well as in the daytime. Even Venus is so bright that, on a night when the moon was absent, I have seen her give light enough to drive by.
This is done by looking carefully along each branch, with the tree between you and the bright moonlight; and if there be a 'possum there, you will see a little black furry-like ball, motionless in the fork of a limb. On the first night that I went out 'possum-shooting with a party of friends, we trudged a good way into the bush, and searched the trees for a long time in vain.
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