mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) (10/23/85)
I am looking for any information that may help in tracking down an old book -- author, title, publisher, year ... I remember the book from my childhood (say 1960) but I have no idea how old it was then. The book told the story of a possum, who lived happily hanging by his tail in the forest. A man came along and since the possum was upside down, the man thought the possum's smile was a frown. The man dug up the whole tree and took the possum to the city to cheer it up. The possum of course wanted to be in the forest, and so started to frown. The man then thought he had cheered to possum up, and took it back to the woods. (It comes across much better with the pictures.) The real reason I want to find the book is that it had a poem on the back cover about a tree that grew upside down, with its roots at the top. You can probably see the relevance to computer science. (I think that said tree grew in Zanzibar.) If you have any pointers to the book, or to the poem, please MAIL them to me. Thanks -- Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney North Carolina State University "If God had intended Man to fly, he would never have given us the railways."