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ing the Jaguar down some fruit, slips off the tree, and, falling on the 

 Jaguar's head, kills him. In " Uncle Remus," while the Rabbit and 

 Terrapin are calling at Miss Meadows's, the Fox comes in on them 

 unawares, and the Terrapin, who has been put up on a shelf, rolls off in 

 his agitation, falls on the head of the Fox, and stuns him a moment, 

 so that Brer Rabbit escapes. 



These are all the stories in Hartt which have full or partial paral- 

 lels in " Uncle Remus " ; there are, however, several additional ones 

 in Smith that belong here. 



V. *' Story of the Jaguar who wanted to marry the Deer's Daugh- 

 ter, but was cut out by the Cotia " (Smith, p. 547 ; " Riverside Maga- 

 zine," 1868, p. 505 ; " Lippincott's," 1877, p. 753 ; and " Uncle Remus," 

 p. 34). The Cotia brags that he can ride the Jaguar, and the Deer 

 promises to give him his daughter if he does. The Cotia pretends to 

 be ill, and the Jaguar charitably takes him on his back, and even ties 

 him on with a root, and gives him a switch. When the Cotia finds 

 himself master of the situation, he whips the Jaguar unmercifully, 

 and rides him by the Deer's house. In " Lippincott " the Rabbit and 

 Wolf, in the other versions the Rabbit and Fox, are the parties con- 

 cerned. 



VI. In the conclusion of Smith's version, p. 549, the Cotia slipped 

 off the Jaguar's back, and hid in a hole before the latter could catch him. 

 The Jaguar set an Owl to watch the hole, but the Cotia peeped out 

 and threw a handful of sand in the Owl's face and ran away. A some- 

 what similar incident is found in "Uncle Remus," p. 39 ("Riverside 

 Magazine," 1868, p. 508, III, at end), but, instead of throwing sand in 

 the Buzzard's eyes, the Rabbit makes him believe that there is a squir- 

 rel in the tree in which the Rabbit is imprisoned, and, when the Buz- 

 zard rushes around to catch it, the Rabbit escapes. 



VII. " Story of the Cotia who played Tricks on the Jaguar and out- 

 witted him" (Smith, p. 549, at end). The Jaguar, enraged at the tricks 

 played upon him by the Cotia, caught the latter and tied him to a tree, 

 intending to drown him in the morning. The Cotia expressed his joy 

 at this determination, and remarked that he would be very sad if he 

 was going to be thrown into a brier-bush. The Jaguar, of course, 

 changed his mind and threw his enemy into a brier-bush ; whereat the 

 Cotia ran away laughing. The same incident precisely occurs in " Uncle 

 Remus," p. 29 ("Riverside Magazine," 1868, p. 505, I), with the Fox 

 and the Rabbit, who begs, " fer de Lord's sake, don't fling me in dat 

 brier-patch ! " The Fox is again deceived, and the Rabbit, as he es- 

 capes unhurt, cries out, " Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox ! " 



VIII. A variant of the last story( Smith, pp. 552, 554) relates 

 that, to be avenged on the Cotia, the Lion and Jaguar guarded a 

 spring, so that the Cotia could get nothing to drink. After a time 

 the Cotia became very thirsty, and, seeing a man ^^ass with a jar on 

 his head, said to himself, " I will see if I can get some water from 



