AN EDITOR'S APPEAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2319, 21 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN EDITOR'S APPEAL.

When Lafayette paid a visit to the United States, he intimated his desire to bccomc master of an opossum, and a Baltimore editor gladly undertook to see that the general had one to take home with him. Anxious to make the most of the occasion, he proclaimed his want in a highly-spiced appeal to his countrymen, urging them to prove that republics were not always ungrateful, l.'hey responded cheerfully—too chcerfully —to the appeal Opossums came in from north and south, east and west;, until the overwhelmed journalist found himself possessed of two thousand one hundred an'd ninety-nine too many. He could not' afford them separate accommodation, he dared not lodge them together; so, at night, he turned them all loose in Monument Square to quarter themselves as they listed. Next day, 'possums were here, there, and everywhere in Baltimore, to the delight of the black, and the disgust of the white citizens, who fervently wished that Lafayette had never heard of an opossum, or that the editor had executed his commission with more discretion.