The Fish and the Possum

 Once upon a time, a man called Fish had a nice garden.  All summer long he had a possum (opossum) hanging around, catching all the mice, rats, slugs, etc.  The loved each other, until the possum decided to build a big Toronto monster house under his extension for the winter.

Fish tried everything to get the possum to move.  He put those horrible dollar store toilet deodourizers in the hole.  This worked for skunks, but not Possy.  Then he kept throwing bricks into the hole.  Possy just dug around them.  

Then he put out his live trap which once captured the big Momma possum.  He had let Momma go then, so Possy (her kid) was warned.  She could steal the apple bits from each side and not trigger the trap.  Finally one day, she was stealing apple bits and the dog jumped her like those cartoons.  She jumped away and triggered the trap.

Fish was so happy!  Everbody had a look at the very young female possum.  Fish took her down to a nice place by the river where she could get married and raise a family, if the coyotes allowed it.  He knew it would take days to get back home, and so he put in his 'possum proof fence'.  It was plastic tensar hardware cloth, and could not be chewed if it was buried in the silt.  The silt would gum up Possy's teeth and she needed to look beautiful to marry.

Fish killed himself with all that stupid digging, and took a big hunk of his stuff, which made him write this story.  The End.