UNCLE REMUS and BRER RABBIT
By
Joel Chandler Harris
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1906, by
Joel Chandler Harris
Copyright, 1907, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
September, 1907
Table of Contents
- BRER RABBIT’S FROLIC
- BROTHER BEAR’S BIG HOUSE
- BRER RABBIT TREATS THE CREETURS TO A RACE
- BRER RABBIT’S FLYING TRIP
- BRER RABBIT AND THE GOLD MINE
- BRER RABBIT GETS BRER FOX A HOSS
- BRER RABBIT FINDS THE MOON IN THE MILL POND
- HOW MR. LION LOST HIS WOOL
- HOW BRER RABBIT GOT A HOUSE
- BRER RABBIT AND THE PARTRIDGE NEST
THE CREETURS GO TO THE BARBECUE
“Once ’pon a time,” said Uncle Remus to the littleboy—“But when was once upon a time?” the child interruptedto ask. The old man smiled. “I speck ’twuz one time er twotimes, er maybe a time an’ a half. You know when Johnny Ashcake’gun ter bake? Well, ’twuz ’long in dem days. Once’pon a time,” he resumed, “Mr. Man had a gyarden sofine dat all de neighbors come ter see it. Some ’ud look at itover de fence, some ’ud peep thoo de cracks, an’ some’ud come an’ look at it by de light er de stars. An’one un um wuz ol’ Brer Rabbit; starlight, moonlight, cloudlight,de nightlight wuz de light fer him. When de turn er de mornin’come, he ’uz allers up an’ about, an’ a-feelin’purty well I thank you, suh!
“Now, den, you done hear what I say. Dar wuz Mr. Man, yander wuzde gyarden, an’ here wuz ol’ Brer Rabbit.” Uncle Remusmade a map of this part of the story by marking in the sand with hiswalking-cane. “Well, dis bein’ de case, what you speckgwineter happen? Nothin’ in de roun’ worl’ but whatbeen happenin’ sence greens an’ sparrer-grass wuz planted inde groun’. Dey look fine an’ dey tas’e fine, an’long to’rds de shank er de mornin’, Brer Rabbit ’udcreep thoo de crack er de fence an’ nibble at um. He’d takede greens, but leave his tracks, mo’ speshually right atter arain. Takin’ an’ leavin’—it’s de way er deworl’.
“Well, one mornin’, Mr. Man went out in his truck patch,an’ he fin’ sump’n missin’—a cabbage here, aturnip dar, an’ a mess er beans yander, an’ he ax how comedis? He look ’roun’, he did, an’ he seed BrerRabbit’s tracks what he couldn’t t