There was no light anywhere, and animal people stumbled around in the darkness. Whenever one dump into another he would say, " what we need in the world is light." And other would reply, " yes, indeed, light is what we badly need."
At last, the animal called a meaning, and gathered together as well as they could in the dark. The red-headed woodpecker said, "l have heard that over on the other side of the world there are people who have light."
"Good,good!" Said everyone.
"Perhaps if we go over there, they will give us some light," the woodpecker suggested.
"If they have all the light there is," the fox said, "they must be greedy people, who would not want to give any of it up. Maybe we should just go over there and take the light from them."
"Who shall go?" Cried everyone, and animals all began talking at once, arguing about who was strongest and run fastest, who was best able to go and get the light.
Finally the ' possum sad, "lcan try. I have a find big bushy tail, and i can hide the light inside my fur."
"Good! good!" Said all the others, and the and the 'possum set out. As he traveled eastward, the light began to grow and grow, until with dazzled his eyes, and the 'possum screwed his eyes up to keep out the bright light. Even today, if you notice, if you will see that the 'possum's eyes are almost shot, and that he comes out of his house only at night. All the same, the 'possum kept going, clear to the other side of the world, and there he found the sun. He is snapched a little piece of it and hid it in the fur of his fine bushy tail, but the sun was so hot it burned off all the fur, and by the time the 'possum got home he still was bare as it is today.
"Oh, dear!" Everyone said. "Our brother has lost his fine bushy tail, and still we have no light."
"I'll go," said the buzzard. "I have better sense than to put the sun on my tail. I'll put it on my head."
To be continued...