NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS 
If ’Tildy thought to propitiate Uncle Remus, she was mistaken. 
He scowled at her, and addressed himself to the little boy: — 
“De Crow, he mighty close kin ter de Buzzud, en dat puts me 
in min’ dat we ain’t bin a-keepin’ up wid ole Brer Buzzud close 
ez we might er done. 
“ W’at de case mout be deze days, I ain’t a-sayin’, but, in dem 
times, ole Brer Tarrypin love honey mo’ samer dan Brer B’ar, but 
he wuz dat flat-footed dat, w’en he fine a bee-tree, he can’t climb 
it, en he go so slow dat he can’t hardly fine um. Bimeby, one day, 
w’en he gwine ’long down de road des a-honin’ atter honey, who 
should he meet but ole Brer Buzzud. 
“Dey shuck han’s mighty sociable en ax ’bout de news er de 
neighborhoods, en den, atter w’ile, Brer Tarrypin say ter ole Brer 
Buzzud, sezee, dat he wanter go inter cahoots wid ’im ’longer 
gittin’ honey, en ’t wa’n’t long ’fo’ dey struck a trade. Brer 
Buzzud wuz ter fly ’roun’ en look fer de bee-tree, en Brer Tarry¬ 
pin he wuz ter creep en crawl, en hunt on de groun’. 
“Dey start out, dey did, ole Brer Buzzud sailin’ ’roun’ in de 
elements, en ole Brer Tarrypin shufflin’en shamblin’ on de groun’. 
’Mos’ de ve’y fus’ fiel’ w’at he come ter, Brer Tarrypin strak up 
wid a great big bumbly-bee nes’ in de groun’. He look ’roun’, ole 
Brer Tarrypin did, en bimeby he stick he head in en tas’e de 
honey, en den he pull it out en look all ’roun’ fer ter see ef he kin 
ketch a glimpse er Brer Buzzud; but Brer Buzzud don’t seem lak 
he nowhar. Den Brer Tarrypin say to hisse’f, sezee, dat he ’speck 
dat bumbly-bee honey ain’t de kinder honey w’at dey been talkin’ 
’bout, en dey ain’t no great shakes er honey dar nohow. Wid dat, 
Brer Tarrypin crope inter de hole en gobble up de las’ drop er de 
bumbly-bee honey by he own-alone se’f. Atter he done make 
’way wid it, he come out, he did, en he whirl in en lick it all off’n 
his footses, so ole Brer Buzzud can’t tell dat he done bin git a mess 
er honey. 
“Den ole Brer Tarrypin stretch out he neck en try ter lick de 
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