Unc’ Billy Possum, newly arrived from the South, is caught in Farmer Brown’s henhouse and plays dead until Reddy Fox thinks he has seen a ghost. Soon he sends for Aunt Marthy and their children, and the four little scamps make mischief all over the Green Meadows; Unc’ Billy’s dialect and songs follow the minstrel conventions of 1914.
Lively bedtime stories from the Burgess animal world, best shared with an adult on hand to talk about the period voice. Download the free EPUB.