Classic Audiobook Collection - Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore Step into a porchside circle of storytelling where Uncle Remus, an elderly Black narrator, shares a lively chain of animal fables with a curious young boy. In these classic tales, the small but quick-witted Brer Rabbit survives a world of bigger, stronger rivals - especially the relentless Brer Fox - by relying on nerve, wordplay, and a sharp eye for opportunity. Each story unfolds like a miniature contest: traps are set, bargains are struck, pride is punctured, and the underdog finds an unexpected opening when no one else can. As the boy returns again and again for another evening's entertainment, the collection builds a richly patterned folk universe full of repeating characters, familiar lessons, and playful reversals. At once humorous and slyly instructive, the book preserves a tradition of oral storytelling, with rhythms and voices meant to be heard aloud. Beneath the mischief and laughter are enduring themes of resilience, cleverness, and the complicated ways power can be challenged without force. This audiobook invites you to savor the cadence of the stories and the timeless charm of Brer Rabbit's audacious escapes. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:54) Chapter 02 (00:09:36) Chapter 03 (00:14:09) Chapter 04 (00:19:33) Chapter 05 (00:23:42) Chapter 06 (00:28:43) Chapter 07 (00:32:10) Chapter 08 (00:36:13) Chapter 09 (00:39:54) Chapter 10 (00:42:39) Chapter 11 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aquaremus and Brough Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris. The creatures go to the barbecue. Once upon a time, said Aquamus to the little boy. But when was once upon a time, the child interrupted to ask? The old man smiled. I spec was one time or two times and maybe a time and a half. You know when Johnny Ashcake gunned to bake? Well, twas long and dim days.

Once upon a time, he resumed. Mr. Man had a garden so fine that all the neighbors come to see it. Some would look at it over the fence, some had peeked through the cracks, and some would come and look at it by the light of the stars. And one of them was Obra Rabbit. Starlight, moonlight, cloud light, the nightlight was the light for him. When to turn of the morning come, he is always up and about, a feeling pretty well, I thank you, sir.

Now then you dunn't hear what I say. There was Mr. Man, yonder was the garden, and here was old bro rabbit. Uncle Remus made a map of this part of the story by marking in the sand with his walking cane. Well, this being the case, what you expect going to happen? Nothing in the round world but what's been happening since greens and sparagrass was planted in the ground. They look fine, and they taste fine. and long torched the shank in the morning bruh rabble it creeped through the crack and the fence and nibble at em he'd take the greens but leave his tracks most specially right out o'-o'-rain takin and leaving it's the way o'-the world well one morning mr man went out in his truck patch and he finds somethin missing a cabbage here a turnip dire and a mess o beans yonder an he asks how come dis he

he looked round he did and he seed bruh rabbit's tracks what he couldn't take with him brer rabbit had left his shoes at home and come bar-footed so mr man he call his dogs here buck here bringer here blue and he sick em on de track an here they went whew de thunk they was runnin after forty lemme rhinoceros is from the fuss they made bruh rabbit he hear em comin and he hear em comin and ee and he put out for home, kind of doubling round like he do these days. When he got to the point where he can sit down for the rest his face in his hands, he took a poplar leaf and he gunned the fan himself. Then, brough fox come a trod'n up. He say, brer rabbit, what's all this fuss I hear in the woods? What de'y name of goodness do it mean?

Brer rabbit kind of scratch his head in loud. why, daring trying for to drive me to the big barbecue on the creek. They all asked me, and when I fuse, they say they ain't wanted to make me go anyhow. They ain't no fun in being as populous as what I is, Brou Fox. If you want to go, let's get in the head of the ponds and go lickety split down the big road. Broufax rolled his little eyes and licked his chops where he dribbled at the mouth, and put out to the barbecue. And he ain't mowled and made his disappearance,

for here comes brough wolf. And when he got the news, off he put. And he ain't moan got out of sight, for here comes old brough bear. And when he hear talk of the bacon meat and the big pan of gravy, he sat up on his behind legs and snorted. Then off he put, and he ain't got out of hearing for brer coon come racking up.

and when he got the news, he put out. So there they was, and what you're going to do about it? It seems like they all got in front of the dogs. The dogs got behind them, and bruh, rabbit, sot by the creek, side laughing, and hitting at the snake doctors. And them pole creatures had to go clean past the barbecue. If there was any barbecue, which I don't scarcely expect there was, that what made me say what I does.

When you get an invite to the barbecue, you better find out when and why it's at, and who's running it. End of chapter one. Chapter 2 of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. This is a LibraVox recording. All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibraVox.org. Recording by Phil Schenever. Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris

Brer Rabbit's Frolick The little boy, when he next saw Uncle Remus After hearing how the animals went to the barbecue Wanted to know what happened to them He was anxious to learn if any of them were hurt by the dogs That had been chasing Brother Rabbit The old darky closed his eyes and chuckled You show is asking something now, honey

under his hat, if he had any, bruh rabbit had a mighty-quick-thinking apple ratis, and most in generally all the time. The pranks he played on the other creatures, pestered them both ways of coming and the guan. The dogs done mighty well, long as days had dealing with the little fry like brou fox and bro-cun and bro-wolf,

but when they run again old brub-bar, they show struck a snag. The most servigorous was the identical one that got the worst hurted. He got too close to Berber, and when he looked at his cell fur in running water, he took notice that he was split wide open from flank to du lap. After the ruckus was over, the creatures hobbled off home the best they could and laid round and sun and shade for to let the cuts and gashes get good and well. when they got so they could sagatuate and paid the party calls they agreed for to ensemble somewheres and hit on some plan for to outdo brer rabbit well they had the in sembly and they jarred and jarred

they's like your old pa do when he ain't feeling right well but by and by they agreed upon a plan that looked like it might a art work they greed for to make out that they want to have a dance they know that obrah rabbit was all as keen for that and they say they'll give em an invite and when he got there they'll ax him fur to play the fiddle and if he fused they'll close in on him and make way with him so fur so good but all the time they was jarring and confabbing o brer rabbit was sittin in a shady place in the grass a-hearing every word they'd safe. When the time come, he crope out he did and run round and the first news day knowed, here he comes down the big road, boogily

bookety, same as a horse that's broke to the pasture fence. He says, says he, Why, hello friends, and howdy too, because I ain't seed you all since the last time. Where the name of goodness is you being these

odd come shorts. And how did you for at the barbecue? If my two eyeballs ain't gone and got crooked. There's old Brabear, him of the shark tail and sharp tush, the very one I'm a hunting fur. And there's brercoon. I show is in big luck. There's going to be a big frolic at Miss Meadows and her and the gals. Want Brabeer for to show them the rose in the ars shuffle.

And they put Burcoon down for the jig they call rackbacked divy. I'm to play the fiddle. something I ain't done since my oldest gal had the mumps and the measles before the same day an hour. Well, this morning I took down the fiddle from where she was hanging and drawed the bowl backards and thirds a time or two, and then I shot my eyes and hit some of the old-time tunes, and when I come to myself, there was my whole blessed family,

skipping out and sashay around the room, despite of the fact that breakfast was to be cooked. With that brer rabbit bowed he did, and went back down the road like the dogs was out of him. But what happened then, the little boy asked. "'Nothing tall,' replied Uncle Remus, taking up the chuckle where he had left off. "'The creatures ain't had no dance, and when they went to Miss Meadows, she put her head out the winder and say if they don't go off from there she'll have her the law on them.' End of Chapter 2.

Chapter 3 of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. This is a Libravox recording. All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Libravox.org. Recording by Phil Schenaber. Aquamus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris. Brother Bear's Big House. Of all decreters, said Uncle Remus, in response to a questioning,

look on the part of the little boy. O Brabara had the biggest and the warmest house. I don't know why nor wherefore, but I'm telling you the plain fact. They're asked that untold unto me. If I can help it, I never will be deceiving you nor lead you into no bad habits. Yo, Papa, trotted with me a mighty long time. And if you'll ask him, he'll tell you that the one thing I never did do was to deceive him whilst he had his eyes open, not if I knows myself. Well, old brubar had the big house I'm telling you about.

If he ever is brag on it, it ain't never come down to me, yet that is what he had, a big house, and plenty of room for him and his family, and he ain't had no more than he need, because all of his family was fat and had what folks call a heft, the natural plumpness. He had a son named salmon, and a gal named Sue, counting this old woman and they all live with one out of day out of day and night out of night and when one of them went abroad they'd be expected home about meal time if not before and they sagacuated right along from day to day washing the face and hands at the same washpan in the back porch and wiping on the same towel same as all

happy families always does well time went on and watched the changes that might be expected and one day there come a mighty knocking on brubar's door brabar he holler out he did who dat cumma knocking this time of the year for the corn's done planted and the cotton crops pitched the one that the dough make a big noise and rattle the hinges brabar holler out he did don't tar down my house who is you anyhow and what you want and the answer come i'm one and dorfinot two if you're more than one who is you and what you doin d'ar brabar he says says he i'm all the one and mighty nigh too but i thank you for to tell me your foe fably name then the answer come i'm de naka and the mover before and if i can't climb over i'll climb under if you do but give me the word some calls me bruh pole cat and some a big word that it ain't waf wild to remember But I want to move in. It's mighty cold out here, and all I meets tells me it's mighty warm and dire where you is. Then, oh, brabar, says he,

It's warm enough for them what stays in here, but not nigh so warm for them on the outside. What does you really want? Brupol cat spawned, he said. I want a heap of things that I don't get. I'm a mighty good housekeeper. But I takes notice that there's a mighty few folks that wants me to keep house for him. Brubar say, says he, I ain't got no room for no housekeeper. We ain't scarcely got room for to go to bed.

If you can keep my house on the outside, you're mighty welcome. Brupolkats say, you may think you ain't got no room, but I bet you got as much room as anybody what I know. If you let me in Dar one time, I bound you out. make all the room I want." Uncle Remus paused to see what effect this statement would have on the little boy. He closed his eyes as though he were tired, but when he opened them again he saw the faint shadow of a smile on the child's face. Tain't going to hurt you fur to laugh a little bit, honey.

Brup old cat come in Brubar's house, and he had such bad breath that they all had to get out, and he stayed and stayed twillard. time stop running again him. End of chapter three. Chapter 4 of Aquarremus and Brer Rabbit. This is a LibraVox recording. All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org.

Recording by Phil Schenever. Aquarimus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris. Brer Rabbit treats the creatures to a race. One sultry summer day, while the little little. boy was playing not far from Uncle Remus's cabin. A heavy black cloud made its appearance in the west, and quickly obscured the sky. It sent a brisk gale before it, as if to clear the path of leaves and dust. Presently there was a blinding flash of lightning, a snap and a crash, and with that the child took to his heels and ran to Uncle Remus, who was standing in his door.

"'Darnal!' he exclaimed, before the echoes of the thunder. had rolled away. That dust and wind and rain puts me in mind of the time when old Brer Rabbit got up a big race for the pleasure of the other creedars. It was the most funniest race you ever heard tell on. Brer Rabbit went way off in the woods twill he come to the Rainmaker's house. He knocked and went in and he axed the Rainmaker, if he can fix it up so they can have a race between bruh dust and cousin rain fur to see which can run the fastest the rainmaker growled and joward but by and by he agree and he say that if he twas anybody but brer rabbit he wouldn't give it but one thunk

well they fixed the day they did and then brer rabbit put out to where the creatures was staying and told him the news they dunn't know how brer rabbit know but they all want to see the race now him and the rain had fixed it up so that the race would be right down the middle of the big road and when the day come Dars where he made the creature stand Brabar at the bend and the road Browulf a little further off and brough fox at a point where the crossroads was Bracoon and Brassum and the others he scattered about up and down the road To them what has to wait it seems like the sun stops and all the clocks with him brubar done come growling brough waf some howling and br possum some laughing but at a while cloud comes up from summers twasn't such a big cloud but ber rabbit knowed that cousin rain was in there long with uncle winn the cloud croak up it did twill it got right over the big road and then it kind of dropped it down a little closer to the ground it looked like it kind of stopped like a buggy for

cousin rain to get out so there'd be a far start well he got out cause the creatures can see him and then uncle win he got out and then gentlemen's the race begun for the commence uncle win hepped up a foe he had his bellows with him and he blowed it bradust got up from whar he was laying at and come down the road a whirling he stricken O Brubar first, then bro wolf and then bro fox, and after that all the other creatures, and they come mighty now smithulcating them. Not never in all your bon days, as you ever heard such coughing and sneezing, such snorting and wheezing. And they all looked like they was painted red.

Brubar sneezed so hard that he had to lay down in the road, and bradust come mighty not burying him, and twas the same with the other creatures they got the ears the noses and the eyes is full and then cousin rain come along a pursuing brother dust and he come mighty nigh drownin em he left them kibbered with mud and they was wuss off there before it was the longest foe they can get the mud out of the eyes and the ears and when they get so they can see a little bit they took notice that bruh rabbit Instead of being full of mud, was he's dry as a chip, if not dry. It made them so mad that they all put out under him and tried the level best for the catch. But if there was anything in the round world that Brough Rabbit's got, it's super foots, and twunt no time, for the other creatures can't see hard nor high of them. All the same. Brer Rabbit ain't bargained for to have two races at the same day. But Uncle Rema said the little boy, which beat, Brother Dust, the cousin Rain.

The old man stirred uneasily in his chair and rubbed his chin with his hand. They tells me, he responded cautiously, that when Cousin'Rain can't see nothing near Brother Dust, he thunked him beat. But he holler out, Brother Dust, whereabouts is you? And Brother Dust, he holler back. You old had a scozing me, I fell down in the mud and can't run no more. End of Chapter 4 Chapter 5 of Uncle Remus

and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris This Libravox recording is in the public domain Recording by Phil Schenever Brer Breravit's Flying Trip Dar once was a time when most of the creeders Got mighty tired of Brerabit's capers And they symbol they did

Grass and Meat-eaters, Browsers and grazers And likewise the bone-scraper for to see what they can do. Brabar was dar with his big fur suit on, and old bro-who fetched his big howl along, and when everything was ready with a long, loud hood on, here come old Simon swamp-owling along, a tooting of his two-woot.

Darwa's old brofaxa with his black socks, sir, and a heap of craters that I don't have a mention, some bow-legged and some knock-k-need in hoaxe, sir, and they all agreed for to hold a convention for to stop the rabbit's pranks. Brough Fox, he lough, he'll gear a pot of gold, sir, to the man what cantold bro rabbit off, sir. Brub buzzard say, I'm a getting old, sir, but I'll try my hand, and then he coughed, sir. And the rest of them bowed their thanks. Now old brubair was a-sitting on the chair, sir, so he stand up and move a motion.

He up and loud, less is soves right here, sir, for to thank bruh buzzard whilst we're in the notion, and not put it off till some other day. And then they had it up and down, sir, sputing about what they ought to do, some want to give him a flower crown, sir, if he read brer rabbit up daring the blue, and drop him when he got halfway. They sought a runner at our old bruh rabbit to ask him to call him to call him. and to tend the convention, but old friend Wobble Nose had a queer habit by no other thing before it was mentioned, and he come for he got the word. He wiggled his nose and wonk his eye.

Here show is the man I wants to see, sir. Brub buzzet, I'm trying to learn how to fly, and cause brubuzard gives a greed, sir, and all'em say he's a accommodating bird. And then, bruh, Buzzard half spread his wings, sir. He tried to look young, but he was old, sir. He tried a strut and walk with a swing, sir. He was dreaming bout that pot of gold, sir. And what, he was gwine for Dubai. Brubh Bussard ain't scassily got true with his pride, sir.

For bruh rabbit lit right tween his floppers. With now hump yourself and gimme a ride, sir. If you don't out hit, I'll hit. you some whoppers when I get you of dar in the sky. Well, the creatures grinned when brer rabbit riz, sir, and made a big fuss according to the nature. Ease for old brer rabbit, the pleasure was all his, sir. The riding was easy as eating tater when it's biled and made into pie. Because under both wings he had a paw, sir, and when brer buzzet tried for to drop him,

he'd scratch and tickling with his claws, sir, and when bruh buzzet tried for to flap him, he'd scratch and wink his eye. And with his claws, he took and steered him, from post the pillar in the deep blue, sir. He'd holler and laugh all the creatures heard him. You know how you'd feel if it had been you, sir, waiting for a summon to fall.

When old brad rabbit got tired of riding, he steered bruzzard right. straight to the ground, sir. And then and now went right into hiding. When the creatures come up, he couldn't be found, sir. And I spec and I reckon that's all. End of chapter five. Chapter 6 of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris. This Libre-Vox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Phil Schenever. Brerabbit and the Gold Mine There had been a silence in the cabin for a long,

minutes, and Uncle Remus, looking up, saw a threat of sleep in the little boy's eyes, whereupon he plunged headlong into a story without a word of explanation. Well, sir, one year it fell out that the craps was burned. A dry drought had done to work, and if you'd struck a match anywhere in that settlement, the whole county would have blazed up. Old men hungrieness did naturally tuck up his clothes and went parading round everywhere and the creedars got bony and skinny. Old Brabara done better than any of them, because all he had to do was go to sleep and live off his own fat.

And Brer Rabbit and his old woman had put some calamus route by and saved up some sugar cane that they find lying round loose, and they got long pretty well. But the balance of the creedars was that gunt that they ain't got over it down to this day. The creeders had to meet. place where they could all sit around and talk the kind of politics they had, just like folks does it to cross-rub grocery. One day, while they was all setting and squatting round, jowering and confabbing, brer rabbit he up

and say, says he, that old mammy-mammie big money told his great-granddaddy that there was a mighty big and fat gold mine in these parts, and he said that he wouldn't be tall astonished to, when somewhere close to Brabauer's house. Brabara, he growled he did, and he said that gold mine better not let him find it, because out of he got done with it, they wouldn't be no gold mine dire. Some laughed, some grinned,

some gapped, and at a jowering some mo, they all put out to where their families was living at. But I bound you they ain't forget about that gold mine, because from that time on, go where you mark. you'd catch some of the creatures digging and grappling in the ground, some in the fields, some in the woods, and some in the big road, and they were so weak and hungry that they can scarcely gabble for falling down. Well, this went on for the longest, but by and by one day, they all agree that something bleeds t'n't be done, and they say they'll all take one big hunt for the gold mine and then quit. They hunted in gangs, with the gangs not fur from one another, and it so happened that Brough Rabbit was in the gang with the Brough Wolf, and he knowed that he had to keep his eyes wide open. All the creatures had to dig in different places, and Wild's Brer Rabbit weren't much of a grabber.

He had a way of making the others believe that he was the best of the lot. So he made a heap of motion like he was tearing up the earth. They ain't been going on this long before, bro, Wolf holler out, "'Run here, bro, Rabbit, I done found it.'" Bra Bear Bear and Brou Fox was both digging close by, and Brub Rabbit kind of won one eye at the elements, and he says, Sizzy, glad I for your sake, bro, Wolf, get your gold and jar for yourself. Bro, wolf say, come get some, bro, rabbit, come get some.

Oh, brer rabbit spined I'll take the leavings, bro, wolf You take what you want Then when you got enough I'll get the little bit I want Bro Wolf say, I want to show you something Brer rabbit lough, my eyes ain't big for nothing Bro, wolf say, I got a secret I want to tell you

Brer rabbit lull, my years ain't long for nothing Duss stand there and do your whispering bro Wolf and I'll hear every word you say. Bro Wolf ain't say nothing but make out he's grabbing, and then all of a sudden he make a dash at bro Rabbit, but when he get where Brer Rabbit was at, Brow Rabbit ain't there no more. He done gone. We can hungry as he is, Browulf know that he can't catch Brer Rabbit, and so he holler out, What's your hurry, bro, rabbit?

Where are you gone? Brow rabbit holler back. i'm goin home out of a bag for de tote de go you goin to leave me so long blow wolf i wish you mighta well and with that he put out for home in the chapter six chapter seven of uncle remus and brer rabbit by joel chaneler harris this librovach's recording is in the public domain recording by phil chenevere brer rabbit gets brer fox a hoss not many of the creatures was fond de water unless it mighta been brocoon's daughter brabar bear fox an old bro rabbit they vowed that they can't never get in the habit a wading the creek or swimming the river when it comes to that they'd run to kiver when folks come long for it to get across the creeders took notice that they rid a horse bra fox he say he wish he had one and amongst all the others he'd be the glad one he'd get a bridle and a brand-new saddle and get on the horse and ride em straddle he says says he'd do some trotin cause when i get started i'm a mighty haughtin br rabbit he smole a great big smile wit i can't ride myself cause i got a bile but it seems like to me that our nose whar a horse wharer

horses. He's way back yon where two roads crosses. And I'll meet you, dar, tomorrow morning. There's about the time when days are dawning. Brough Fox, he say, I hear yo, sesso. And if I ain't sick, I'll be dire, dezzo. Brer rabbit tip his hat with so long, friend, we'll get the horse. You made the pin. Long for the time, brer rabbit was astir'erun, and he chuckled himself like a cat a-upurring the horse was stretched out asleep in the pasture brer rabbit went up as close as he dastered for to see if he live horse twitch his tail sir this time we'll get you without fail sir so brerabits say didn't he seed brufox and the nirfine gentfer to get in the box then he say out loud good luck done sawn him and laid

him down right where you want him if you're tied to his tail you can shoally hold him and molding that you can trip him and roll him so said so done and dar bur fox was right close to the place where a heap of hoax was bruhrabbit he holler hold him down hold him down this make him stay right sprang on the ground the horse he riz with a snort and a wick and showed that he was something of a kicker and then and our brer rabbit gunned to snicker with holing brough fox don't do the flicker if you make em stand still you can ride him to quicker the horse he roaring and rays a mighty dust up and first thing you know brer rabbit here a bust up i hope bro fox that you ain't much hurt but your wife will be mad cause you done toad yo shirt end of chapter seven chapter eight of uncle remus and brer rabbit by joel chanler harris this librovoc's recording is in the public domain recording by phil brer rabbit finds the moon in the mill pond oh one bright day in the middle of may brer rabbit was feeling fine he took to the road and never knowed the place where he'd he was gawin'all o fur and free says ee serie no gal can change my mind brer taripin sly he wunk one eye aneat his green-gold vine

he holler and say where you gwine this day with your pipe and walkin cane brer rabbit wave his hand like a gal do her fan my heart's bout to bust with pain i'm a heap too nice i ain't laugh but twice since the big january rain. My day'll be done. If I don't have some fun, they'll call me Sunday Jane. I'll get solemn collic. If I don't have a frolic, my head'll get flabby and swink. I'll char the pine bud because I'm about to lose my cud, and some nights I don't sleep a wink.

If I has to sit still, oh, I'll wear the green willow and go in morning with the mink, but I bet you a hat that for I does that I'll show em all a new kink so off he put on his nimble's foot with a grin a laugh and a cough the Miss Moths and Miss Meadows and all the others he tell will his guinter come off twas a mill-pond fishing and he left em a-wishing that the wind don't blow from the north and the creatures all be full long and tall and them no big than a dwarf brough wolf and brough bar all say they'd be dar and they promise fur to fetch a sane they greed to de day an brer rabbit say that day don't ha'ter come if it rain so said so done and when de time come the big road as well as the lane was filled with a crowd all talking out loud and a-pranking with mine and mane brad was dire with miss hot Harry are waiting for the fun to begin. He shook his shank and went to the bank and made like he going to jump in. But the sight he saw made him drap his jaw and break up a great big grin. He says

to Bracoon, Run here and see the moon, floating without a fin. He look again, she show fell in, and we got to get her out. If she stays in the pond, it's good-bye, John. and of that there ain't no doubt we got to have light when we play at night for to see how to get about we'll drag with the scene if we don't drag in vain we'll have good reason to shout but when it comes to sainan there was some complaining about who was to do it all they all make out that they want to wait out but it fell on them that was tall brabara he laughed as he took a staff "'Browulf say he fear he'd fall, "'but he took his place with a mighty wry face, "'and when they gunned the hall, "'Oh, you better bet this water's wet.

"'I feel this like a sponge. "'And then they all, with a kick and a squaw, "'with a squeal, and then a lunge, "'grabbed at the water which they had in order, "'went over their heads with a splunge. "'Brubbit bent double. "'Oh, all of your teeth. trouble fills me full of fun yon yon yon yon end of chapter eight chapter nine of uncle remus and brer rabbit by joel chanler harris this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by phil chenevere

how mr lyon lost his woe twas just such a day as dis that mr lyon lost his wool remarked uncle remus to the little boy mr man took a notion that the time done come for him for to have a hog killin and he got em a big barrel and fill it half full of water from the big springs then he piled up about a cord o wood and as he piled he put rocks twixt the logs and then he sought the wood after and befoids and in the middle twasn't long for they had the hogs kilt and everything ready for the scrape the har off then he took the red-hot rocks what he put in the fire and flung em in the barrel where the water was and twon long but ter long but foe for that water was ready for the bile. Then they took the hogs, one at a time, and sauced them in the water, and time they took them out, the hair was ready for the drap out by the roots. Then they'd scrape them with sticks and chips, and they'd leave a har on them. Well, by and by, they had all the hogs kilt and cleaned and hauled off,

and when everything was still as a setting hen, old bro rabbit stuck his head out from behind, a bush where he been sitting at. He struck his head out he did and looked all round, and then he went where the fire was, and tried for to warm himself. He ain't been there long, for here comes Browulf and Brough Fox, and then he got busy.

He say, Hello, friends, howdy, and welcome. I'm just fixing for to take a warm bath like Mr. Mann get his hogs. Won't you join me? They say they ain't, no hurry but they helped brer rabbit put the hot rocks in the barrel and they watched the water bubble and by and by when everything was ready who should walk up an old mr lion he had a mane from his head plumbed to the inn o his tail and in some places it was so long he drug on the ground that would make all the creatures fear de'all he growled and axed him what they doin and when brer rabbit tell him

he say dat's what he long been needing how does you get in just back right in says old brun rabbit says he and with that mr lyne backed in and the water was so hot he tried for to get out and he slipped in plumb to his shoulder blades you can believe me or not but that creature was scalded so that he hollered and scared everybody for miles around and when he come out all the wool dropped out, except the bunch you see on his neck, and the little bit you find on the end of his tail, and dat had come off if the tail hadn't a slip through the bunghole or the barrel. With that Uncle Remus closed his eyes, but not so tightly that he couldn't watch the little boy. For a moment the child said nothing, and then, I must tell that tale to mother before I forget it. so saying he ran out of the cabin as fast as his feet could carry him leaving uncle remus shaking with laughter end of chapter nine chapter ten of uncle remus and brer rabbit by joel chanler harris this libervox recording is in the public domain recorded by phil shenever how broravit got a house oh once upon a time all the creeders all the creedars all the creedars all the Cretors took a notion that they'd build the house and fix it so as to keep out the skeeters and fix it up next Cummy rouse

They all was there from the bar to the possum bro wolf br fox bro coon With old bro rabbit for the standing round and bossum cuz they had to have the house right soon Brer rabbit he was busy oh yes mighty busy not doing of a blessed thing if he climbed a scaffold he say you get dizzy so he measure and mark and sing they build the house and it show was a finn made a poplar an oak and pine the littlest room was a seven-by-nin'nion where the sick could go in whine brer rabbit he wait and when the time come he chosein an up-star room and dar he sought if i can make the rhyme come a singing hawk from the tomb and then he got what he ain't had a otter as all the creatures said a gun a cannon and a tub o waller and hit em under his bed when the creedars come home brer rabbit was ready and he tell him he gwint to sit down well set says day an we'll try to be steady and with that brer rabbit kinda frown bang bang went the gun the barrels was double and the cretors was still as mice brubair he say there must be some trouble but i hope he don't loosen the geist brer rabbit he say whereabouts must i spit at and brad wolf answered with a grin

this wa'ersomever you can make it hit at bruh fox he rubbed his chin bruh rabbit he took the tub o water and emptied it all on the stars and they come nigh drownin bro coon's daughter and likewise one of brubars brer rabbits say when i sneeze i'll scare you and i hate fer to have it to do brfax say we'll listen and hear you dis dis'go right ahead with yo sneeze o' ado boomer lime when the cannon and the creedars they lit out tru wind de sash and dough any way any way that they can git out an de ain't come dar no mo in the chapter ten chapter eleven of ocoreumus and brer rabbit by joel chanler harris this leber fox recording is in the public domain recording by phil chenever brough rabbit and the partridge nest oh what's the matter with the whippoorwill that she sets and cries on the further hill and what's the matter with miss bob white that she choke herself with saying good-night you know mighty well that somethin is wrong when they sets and sings that kind o song twixt a call and a cry twigs a weep and a wail they must be telling a mighty sad tale miss whippoorwis and what she say will do for it to tell some y'other day but miss bob white ma ain't she a sight i'll ha'n't to tell you why she hollas good-night there once was a time ne'n't moor no less when she ain't try to hide ne'er kibber her nest she built it in the open where all can see and was there's as polite as she can be she'd make her house facing east and west and then with eggs she'd fill her nest

for to keep em warm she'd brood and set they keep her house from gettin wet whilst dis gwine on brer rabbit come by a wiggling his mouth and a blinkin his eye de top o'n the m'n mrs bob says he de same to you brer rabbit says she says old brer rabbit i've been missing you long i was mighty feared that something was wrong but here you set is still as a mouse not doing nothin but keeping house oh well says she i'm too old to gad i used to do it but i wish i never had the only thing i want is to wash my dress but i can't do that whilst i'm on my nest brer rabbit he say can i help you out i ain't doin nothin but walking about and my old woman is willing for tibet that if settin's the thing i'm old man set i know mighty well says miss bob white if you set at all it'll be done right thank you do miss bob go wash your dress and i'll do what i can for to cover your nest so off she put with a flutter and a flirt and washed her dress and a pile of clean D-Dirt brough rabbit seized the eggs and shook his head his mouth gunned to dribble and his eye turned red Says he it surely be hard for the match him so I'll take him home and try for the hatch him So said so done and then when he come back he come in a gate twixt the lope and a rack and miss Bob White

Atter washing her dress when a running back to house and nests much you're blight I gee brough rabbit, and then she bowed. Say nothin'n't ma'am for it to make me proud, because I've been awaiting here fretting and sweating, for fear I ain't seach a good hand that's sitting. My old woman say I got a slow fever, and I clare to goodness. I'm ready to believe her.

I felt something move, I heard something run, and the eggs done gone, they ain't an hour of one. I show his seed sights, I done hear folks talk, but never before i seed eggs walk my goodness me says miss bob white peeping in the nest you show is right and ye ever since then when darkness falls she gives the lost chilling her good-night calls and ye ever since then when darkness falls she gives the lost chilling her good-night calls and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris.