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I found that this was one of the ring-tailed species, the top of the tail being bare for about two inches, and formed like a white ring. 'Possums of this sort use their tails for climbing, like the spider-monkey of Africa. I found I could carry my ring-tailer hanging on to my finger, even after he was quite dead.
"What are you going to suggest? Hire a snake-charmer and a wild-man-from-Borneo and an infant pachyderm and a royal ring-tailed gyasticutus, and pull off a side-show after the main tent's closed?" "Oh, Henry! Can't you see what a lark it would be?" "Lark?" he repeated, hazily. "Lark? You've got the wrong bird. It's crow." "No, but Henry dear, you aren't going to be a quitter, are you?"
I taught her how to sing 'John Brown's Body Lies A-Smoulderin' in th' Grave, though she didn't have no more notion o' what she was singin' than a ring-tailed monkey." "How d'ye come to pick up with her?" inquired McGuffey politely. "I didn't come to pick up with her," answered Mr. Gibney. "She took a fancy to them red whiskers o' mine, and picked up with me.
Possum, saved by the stiff fight put up by his ring-tailed woods-brother, had taken this opportunity of unhanging himself and departing into parts unknown, perhaps a still more wily citizen after his threatened extinction.
At this critical moment an eccentric maiden aunt, to whom, a year or two previously, he had sent a propitiatory offering of a ring-tailed monkey and a leash of pea-green parrots, and who had never condescended even to acknowledge the present, departed this life, bequeathing him ten thousand florins as a return for the addition to her menagerie.
At Separation Creek, we first met with the ring-tailed opossum; and, on the table land, often heard its somewhat wailing cry. June 5.
A few desultory shots had already been dropped among the cottonwoods, and returned by the defendants when Missou let out a yell of triumph. "Glory Hallelujah! Here comes the boys splittin' down the road hell-for-leather. That lopsided, ring-tailed snorter of a hawss-thief is gathering his wolves for a hike back to the tall timber. Feed me a cigareet, Mac. I plumb want to celebrate."
"If I hadn't seen every beast in the country," remarked Mr Kennedy, "and didn't know that there are no such animals north of the equator, I should say it was a mad dromedary mounted by a ring-tailed roarer." "It can't be, surely not possible!" exclaimed Mr Grant. "It's not Charley on the new horse!" Mr Grant said this with an air of vexation, that annoyed his friend a little.
Suffice to say that boa-constrictors, half-naked savages, dye-woods, Jesuit’s bark, cockatoos, scorpions and ring-tailed monkeys, are not, as he had hitherto supposed, the only contributions to the happiness of mankind afforded by South America, for the Province of Brazil grows fortune-tellers of a very superior quality as to respectability and neatness of appearance.
"'Remember the old boy you were talking to this morning? asked Ted between two mouthfuls of dum-dums that's beans, Uncle Bill. I 'lowed I remembered the old boy; in fact he'd stuck in my mind all day. "'Well, Ted went on, 'he's a ring-tailed snorter.
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