Very Ancient Animals by Frank R. Stockton

If you boys never went on a "possum hunt" you have missed a good deal of fun. I really cannot tell which enjoys this hunt the most, men, or boys, or dogs. I think we can guess pretty well which enjoys it least-the opossum. If he gets safely off, though, as he does very often, I have no doubt he enjoys thinking over the chase, and laughs to himself at the way he outwitted dogs and men; for, of course, he would put the dogs first, as being of the greater importance in his eyes.

Moonlight nights are the times to hunt opossums. Where these animals go in the day-time I am sure I don't know, but they roll themselves up in a ball, and sleep soundly somewhere, entirely out of the way of everybody. But, at night, they are awake and active, and look up their food.