Then he sat down and waited for the possum and the potatoes to cook. The potatoes were soon done, but it took a long time for the possum. “I’ll whistle while I wait,” he said to himself. So he sat and whistled and watched the pan with the possum.
Finally, after a long while, the possum was cooked. The old man took the pan with the possum off the fire and put it onto the table beside the sweet potatoes.