The Opossum of the Future
    
    
      ONE day an Opossum who had gone to sleep hanging from the highest 
    branch of a tree by the tail, awoke and saw a large Snake wound 
    about the limb, between him and the trunk of the tree.
    
      "If I hold on," he said to himself, "I shall be swallowed; if I let 
    go I shall break my neck."
    
      But suddenly he bethought himself to dissemble.
    
      "My perfected friend," he said, "my parental instinct recognises in 
    you a noble evidence and illustration of the theory of development.  
    You are the Opossum of the Future, the ultimate Fittest Survivor of 
    our species, the ripe result of progressive prehensility - all 
    tail!"
    
      But the Snake, proud of his ancient eminence in Scriptural history, 
    was strictly orthodox, and did not accept the scientific view.
    


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