BRER RABBIT’S BEEF SUPPLY 
Rabbit sail in en cut out all de fat en taller, en kyar’ it off en hide 
it. Atter w’ile, yer come Brer Fox back des a-puffin’ en a-pantin’. 
He ain’t see no man. Brer Rabbit, he hail ’im: — 
“‘You ain’t come a minnit too soon, Brer Fox, dat you ain’t. 
W’iles you bin gone ’n’er man come ’long en kyar’d off all de taller 
en fat. He went right off dat a-way. Brer Fox, en ef you’ll be 
right peart, you’ll ketch ’im.’ 
“Brer Fox, he tuck’n put out, he did, en run, en run, yit he 
ain’t see no man. W’iles he done gone Brer Rabbit kyar off one 
er de behime quarters. Brer Fox come back; he ain’t see no man. 
Brer Rabbit holler en tell ’im dat ’ne’r man done come en got a 
behime quarter en run’d off wid it. 
“Brer Fox sorter study ’bout dis, ’kaze it look lak nobody 
yuver see de like er mens folks passin’ by dat one lonesome cow. 
He make out he gwine ter run atter de man w’at steal de behime 
quarter, but he ain’t git fur ’fo’ he tuck’n tu’n ’roun’ en crope 
back, en he ’uz des in time fer ter see Brer Rabbit makin’ off wid 
de yuther behime quarter. Brer Fox mighty tired wid runnin’ 
hether en yan, en backards en forrerds, but he git so mad w’en 
he see Brer Rabbit gwine off dat a-way, dat he dash up en ax ’im 
whar is he gwine wid dat ar beef. 
“Brer Rabbit lay de beef down, he did, en look lak he feelin’s 
hurted. He look at Brer Fox lak he feel mighty sorry fer folks 
w’at kin ax foolish questions lak dat. He shake he head, he did, 
en ’low f— 
“‘Well, well, well! Who’d ’a’ thunk dat Brer Fox would ’a’ 
come axin’ me ’bout dish yer beef, w’ich anybody would er know’d 
I ’uz a-kyar’n off fer ter save fer ’im, so nobody could n’t git 
it?’ 
“ But dish yer kinder talk don’t suit Brer Fox, en he tuck’n make 
a motion ’zef 1 ter ketch Brer Rabbit, but Brer Rabbit he ’gun ’im 
leg bail, en dar dey had it thoo de woods twel Brer Rabbit come 
1 As if. 
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