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Title: Told by Uncle Remus : new stories of the old plantation
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848-1908 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928, ill
Subjects: Folklore -- United States African Americans
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a green BROTHER RABBIT AND BROTHER BULL-FROG 226 umbrella. The laughter of the youngster washearty enough to satisfy the old negro, and hewent on with the story. Whiles all dis gwine on, honey, you betterblieve dat Brer Rabbit wa nt so mighty fur fumdar. When Brer Bull-Frog come out an start ferter promenade ter de bog, Brer Rabbit show his-sef an make like he skeered. He broke an run,an den he stop fer ter see whatt is - - an den herun a leetle ways an stop agin, an he keep ondodgin an runnin twel he fool Brer Bull-Froginter blievin dat he wuz skeerd mighty nigh terdeath. You know how folks does when dey git deidee dat somebody s feard un um - - ef youdont you 11 fin out long fo yo whiskers gits terhangin to yo knees. When folks take up dis idee,dey gits biggity, an dey aint no stayin in dcsame country wid um. Well, Brer Bull-Frog, he git de idee dat BrerRabbit wuz feard un im, an he shuck his um-brell like he mad, an he beller: Whar my gun?Brer Rabbit flung up bofe hans like he wuz
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He ahuclc his umbrell like he mad226 BROTHER RABBIT AND BROTHER BULL-FROG 227 skeerd er gittin a load er shot in his vitals, an*den he broke an run ez hard ez he kin. Brer Bull-Frog holler out, Conie yer, you vilyun, an leme gi you de frailin what I done promise you!but ol Brer Rabbit, he keep on a-gwine. BrerBull-Frog went hoppin atter, but he aint makemuch headway, kaze all de time he wuz hoppinhe wuz tryin to strut. Twuz een about ez much ez Brer Rabbitkin do fer ter keep fum laughin, but he led BrerBull-Frog ter de holler poplar, whar he had hishatchet hid. Ez he went in, he low, You cantgit me! He went in, he did, an out he popped onter side. By dat time Brer Bull-Frog wuz mightycertain an sho dat Brer Rabbit wuz skeerd ezhe kin be, an inter de holler he went, widout somuch ez takin de trouble ter shet up his umbrell.When he got in de holler, in cose he aint seehide ner har er Brer Rabbit, an he beller out,Whar is you? You may hide, but I 11 fin you,an when I does — when I does

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