1 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:25,799 Speaker 1: Welcome sleep tite stories mister Possum. Mister Possum lived in 2 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: a tree in the woods where mister Bear lived, and 3 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: one morning, just before spring, mister Possum awoke very hungry. 4 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: He ran around to mister Squirrel's house and tried to 5 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: get an invitation to breakfast, but mister Squirrel had only 6 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: enough for himself. He knew that mister Possum always lived 7 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: on his neighbors when he could, so he said, of 8 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: course you have been to breakfast long ago, mister Possum. 9 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,640 Speaker 1: You are such a smart fellow, so I will not 10 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: offer you any Mister Possum, of course said he had 11 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: and that he only dropped in to make a call. 12 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 1: He was on his way to mister Rabbit's house, But 13 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:29,720 Speaker 1: he met with no better success at mister Rabbit's, for 14 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: he only put his nose out of the door, and 15 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 1: when he saw who was there, he said, I am 16 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: as busy as I can be, getting ready for my 17 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: spring planting. Will you come in and help sort seeds? 18 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: Mister Rabbit knew the easiest way to be rid of 19 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: mister Possum was to ask him to work. Oh, I 20 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:59,200 Speaker 1: would gladly help you, replied mister Possum, but I am 21 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: in a great this morning. I have some important business 22 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 1: with mister Bear, and I only stop to say, how 23 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,839 Speaker 1: do you do mister Bear? I am afraid he will 24 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,800 Speaker 1: not be receiving to day, said mister Rabbit. It is 25 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: rather early for him to be up, isn't it. I thought, 26 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: as the sun was nice and warm, he might venture out, 27 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,679 Speaker 1: and I thought it would please him to have me 28 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: there to welcome him, said mister Possum. Besides that, I 29 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: wish to see him on business now. Mister Possum knew 30 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: well enough that mister Bear would not be up, and 31 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: he wanted to find him sleeping and soundly too. He 32 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: went to the door and knocked softly. Then he waited, 33 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: and as he did not hear any moving inside, he 34 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: went to a window and looked in. There was mister 35 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: Bear's chair and pipe, just as he left them when 36 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: he went to bed. He looked in the bedroom window 37 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: and he could see in the bed a big heap 38 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: of bedclothes, and just the tiniest tip of mister Bear's nose. 39 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: Mister Possum listened, and he trembled a bit, for he 40 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 1: could hear mister Bear breathing very loud, and it sounded 41 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: anything but pleasant. Oh he is sound asleep for another week, 42 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 1: said mister Possum, What is the use of being afraid? 43 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: He walked around the house until he came to the 44 00:03:53,960 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: pantry window. Then he stopped and raised the sash. He 45 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: put in one foot and sat on the sill and listened. 46 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: All was still, so he slid off to the floor. 47 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: Mister Possum looked around mister Bear's well filled pantry. He 48 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: did not know where to begin. He was so hungry, 49 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: he became so interested, and was so greedy that he 50 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: forgot all about that. He was in mister Bear's pantry. 51 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:40,800 Speaker 1: And he stayed on and on, and ate and ate. 52 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: Then he fell asleep. And the first thing he knew, 53 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 1: a pair of shining eyes were looking in the window, 54 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: and a big head with a red mouthful of long 55 00:04:56,080 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: white teeth was poked into the pantry well. Mister Possum 56 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 1: thought his time had come, so he just closed his 57 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: eyes and pretended he was dead, But he peeked a 58 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: little so as to see what happened. The big head 59 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 1: was followed by a body, and when it was on 60 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 1: the sill, mister Possum saw it was mister Fox, and 61 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 1: the next thing he knew, mister Fox came off the 62 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: sill with a bang and hit a pan of beans 63 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: and then knocked over a jar of preserves. The noise 64 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: was enough to awaken all the bears for miles around, 65 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: and mister Possum was frightened nearly to death, for he 66 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: heard mister Bear growling in the next room. While mister 67 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: Fox was on the f and trying to get up 68 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: on his feet, mister Possum jumped up and was out 69 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: the window like a flash. Mister Fox saw something, but 70 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,240 Speaker 1: he did not know what, and before he could make 71 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: his escape, the door of the pantry opened and there 72 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,160 Speaker 1: stood mister Bear with a candle in his hand, looking in. 73 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: Oh oh, he growled, so you are trying to rob 74 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: me while I am taking my sleep, and he sprang 75 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: at mister Fox. Wait, wait, said mister Fox. Let me explain, 76 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: my dear mister Bear, you are mistaken. I was trying 77 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: to protect your house. I saw your window open and 78 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: knew you were asleep, and when I got in the window, 79 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: the thief attacked me and nearly killed me. And now 80 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,119 Speaker 1: you are blaming me for it. You are most ungrateful. 81 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:06,159 Speaker 1: I shall know another time what to do. Mister Bhaer 82 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: looked at him. His mouth did not show any signs 83 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: of food, and mister Fox opened his mouth and told 84 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:17,520 Speaker 1: him to look. I wonder who it could have been, 85 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: he said, when he was satisfied that mister Fox was 86 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: not the thief, it may have been that Possum fellow. 87 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: I'll go over to his house in the morning. The 88 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 1: next morning, mister Bhaer called on mister Possum. He found 89 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: him sleeping soundly, and when he at last opened the door, 90 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: he was rubbing his eyes as though he was not 91 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: half awake. Why how do you do he said when 92 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: he saw mister Bhaer, I did not suppose you were 93 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: up yet, you didn't, asked mister Beer. And then he 94 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: stared at mister Possum's coat. What's the matter with your coat? 95 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: He asked. You have white hair sticking out all over you, 96 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: and the rest of your coat is almost white too. Now, 97 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: mister Possum had a black coat before. And he ran 98 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: through the mirror and looked at himself. It was true, 99 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: he was almost white. He knew what had happened. He 100 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,079 Speaker 1: was so frightened when he was caught in mister Bear's 101 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,959 Speaker 1: pantry by mister Fox, and then heard mister Bear growl 102 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: that he had turned nearly white with fright. I have 103 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: been terribly ill, he told mister Beer, going back to 104 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: the door. And I have been here all alone this winter. 105 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,200 Speaker 1: It was a terrible sickness. I guess that is what 106 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 1: caused it. Mister Bhaer went away, shaking his head. That 107 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: fellow is grafty, he said, I feel sure he was 108 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: the thief, and yet he certainly does look sick. After that, 109 00:09:15,559 --> 00:09:20,960 Speaker 1: all the opossums were of dull white color, with long 110 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: white hairs scattered here and there over their fur. They 111 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: were never able to outgrow the mark the thieving mister 112 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: Possum left upon his race.