 I have seen them stick fast thereto, when they have been no bigger than a small raspberry, and seemingly inanimate. She has a paunch or false belly, wherein she carries her young, after they are from those teats, till they can shift for themselves. Their...  Zoology for High Schools and Colleges - Página 559por Alpheus Spring Packard - 1880 - 719 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1848 - 320 páginas
...raspberry, and seemingly inanimate. She has a paunch, or false belly, wherein she carries her young, after they are from those teats, till they can shift...break every bone in their skin, and mash their skull, VIRGINIAN OPOSSUM. leaving them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will be gone quite away,... | |
 | 1849 - 440 páginas
...raspberry, and seemingly inanimate. She has a paunch or false belly, wherein she carries her young, after they are from those teats, till they can shift...them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will be gone quite away, or perhaps you may meet them creeping away. They are a very stupid creature,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 478 páginas
...passage quoted in the Museum of Animated Nature, gives the following quaint account of this animal: — "If a cat has nine lives this creature surely has...them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will be quite gone away, or, perhaps, you may meet them creeping away. I have for double; 5e\<pus,... | |
 | Mrs. Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield - 1858 - 712 páginas
...cheat, or sly deceitful acting, is said to be " possuming," or " playing possum." It has been said, " if a cat has nine lives, this creature surely has...them for dead, you may come an hour after and they will be gone quite away, or perhaps you may meet them creeping away." — (Lawson.) The color of the... | |
 | John Lawson - 1860 - 408 páginas
...or wild fruits. They have no hair on their tails, but a sort of a scale or hard crust, as the bevers have. If a cat has nine lives, this creature surely...them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will be gone quite away, or perhaps you meet them creeping away. They are a very stupid creature, utterly... | |
 | 1875 - 884 páginas
...wherein she carries her young, after they are from those teats, till they can shift for themselves. ... If a cat has nine lives, this creature surely has...you break every bone in their skin, and mash their ^kull, leaving them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will be gone quite away. . . . Their... | |
 | David W. Cartwright, Mary F. Bailey - 1875 - 348 páginas
...can always tell whether the wary creature is really dead, or whether it plays dead. Some one says, " If a cat has nine lives, this creature surely has nineteen ; for if you break every bone in its body, mash its skull and leave it for dead, it may still survive, and you may find it after a time... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1883 - 368 páginas
...raspberry and seemingly inanimate. She has a paunch, or false belly, wherein she carries her young after they are from those teats, till they can shift...them for dead, you may come an hour after and they will be gone quite away, or perhaps you may meet them creeping away." (" Perfect Description of Virginia,"... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1883 - 370 páginas
...raspberry and seemingly inanimate. She has a paunch, or false belly, wherein she carries her young after they are from those teats, till they can shift...them for dead, you may come an hour after and they will be gone quite away, or perhaps you may meet them creeping away." (" Perfect Description of Virginia,"... | |
 | 1876 - 806 páginas
...till they can shift for themselves. ... If a cat has nine lives, this creature surely has uineteen; for if you break every bone in their skin, and mash...them for dead, you may come an hour after, and they will he gone quite away. . . . Their fur is not esteemed nor used, save that the Indians spin it into... | |
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