NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS 
sho’ he de gran’-daddy er all de booggers. Brer Rabbit pace 
’long, he did, en ev’y motion he make, de leafs dey’d go swishy- 
swushy, splushy-splishy , en, fum de fuss he make en de way he 
look, you’d er tuck ’im ter be de mos’ suvvigus varment w’at 
disappear fum de face er de yeth sence ole man Noah let down 
de draw-bars er de ark en tu’n de creeturs loose; en I boun’ ef 
you’d er struck up long wid ’im, you’d er been mighty good en 
glad ef you’d er got off wid dat. 
“De fus’ man w’at Brer Rabbit come up w T id wuz ole Sis Cow, 
en no sooner is she lay eyes on ’im dan she h’ist up ’er tail in de 
elements, en put out like a pack er dogs wuz atter ’er. Dis make 
Brer Rabbit laff, kaze he know dat w’en a ole settle’ ’oman like 
Sis Cow run ’stracted in de broad open day-time, dat dey mus’ 
be sump’n’ mighty kuse ’bout dem leafs en dat honey, en he keep 
on a-rackin’ down de road. De nex’ man w’at he meet wuz a black 
gal tollin’ a whole passel er plantation shotes, en w’en de gal see 
Brer Rabbit come prancin’ ’long, she fling down ’er basket er corn 
en des fa’rly fly, en de shotes, dey tuck thoo de woods, en sech 
n’er racket ez dey kick up wid der runnin’, en der snortin’, en der 
squealin’ ain’t never bin year in dat settlement needer befo’ ner 
since. Hit keep on dis a-way long ez Brer Rabbit meet anybody 
— dey des broke en run like de Ole Boy wuz atter um. 
“Co’se, dis make Brer Rabbit feel monst’us biggity, en he ’low 
ter hisse’f dat he ’speck he better drap ’roun’ en skummish in de 
neighborhoods er Brer Fox house. En w’iles he wuz stannin’ dar 
runnin’ dis ’roun’ in he min’, yer come old Brer B’ar en all er he 
fambly. Brer Rabbit, he git crossways de road, he did, en he 
sorter sidle todes um. Ole Brer B’ar, he stop en look, but Brer 
Rabbit, he keep on sidlin’ todes um. Ole Miss B’ar, she stan’ it 
long ez she kin, en den she fling down ’er parrysol en tuck a tree. 
Brer B’ar look lak he gwine ter stan’ his groun’, but Brer Rabbit 
he jump straight up in de a’r en gin hisse’f a shake, en, bless yo’ 
soul, honey! ole Brer B’ar make a break, en dey tells me he to’ 
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