opossummypossum: actualmermaid: I will never not be delighted by the first English description of...

opossummypossum:

actualmermaid:

I will never not be delighted by the first English description of an opossum:

“An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat. Under her belly she hath a bagge, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and sucketh her young.”

poetry… to my ears..