未来世界的负鼠

Belinda

ONE day an Opossum who had gone to sleep hanging from the highest

    branch of a tree by the tail, awoke and saw a large Snake wound

    about the limb, between him and the trunk of the tree.

    "If I hold on," he said to himself, "I shall be swallowed; if I let

    go I shall break my neck."

    But suddenly he bethought himself to dissemble.

    "My perfected friend," he said, "my parental instinct recognises in

    you a noble evidence and illustration of the theory of development.  

    You are the Opossum of the Future, the ultimate Fittest Survivor of

    our species, the ripe result of progressive prehensility - all

    tail!"

    But the Snake, proud of his ancient eminence in Scriptural history,

    was strictly orthodox, and did not accept the scientific view.

Cici

来的太是时候了，嘿嘿~~·{:4_85:}