So they waited all the long day for the coming of Unc' Billy Possum's family, and when at last they did arrive, there was the merriest surprise party ever seen. Only Sammy Jay, Blacky the Crow, Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel were unhappy, and of course no one cared for that.
XIII
UNC' BILLY POSSUM GROWS HUNGRY
UNC' BILLY POSSUM spent the very coldest days of winter curled up in his warm, snug home in the big hollow tree in the Green Forest. Unc' Billy didn't like the cold weather. Sometimes he would stick his head out of his doorway and then, as he heard rough Brother North Wind whooping through the Green Forest, he would turn right around and go back to his bed for another nap. And all the time he would be saying:
"Way down Souf de sun am shinin'—
Yas, Sah, dat am so!
Fo' dat lan' mah heart am pinin'—
Yas, Sah, dat am so!
"De mocking-bird he sings all day,