Brer Rabbit Reading Notes Part B
Mr. Fox and The Deceitful Frogs
-picks up after Terrapin has tricked Fox into letting go of his tail, Terrapin is mocking him from water
-teased Fox in terrapin talk
-Frog and Bull-Frog join in
-they tricked Fox into thinking his reflection was another fox and he fell in the water
Old Mr. Rabbit, He's a Good Fisherman
-has origins in Europe
-Fox, Rabbit, Coon, Bear, and others are clearing a patch to plant corn
-Rabbit begins to get tired but doesn't say anything because he doesn't want to look lazy
-Rabbit jumped into a bucket from a well
-bucket went down and rabbit got scared- "They ain't been no worser scared beast since the world begin than this here same Brer Rabbit."
-ague-illness
-Fox followed him and saw Rabbit fall down the well in the bucket
-Fox thinks that Rabbit is actually hiding something in the well
-Rabbit tells Fox he is fishing
-Rabbit tricks Fox into jumping in other bucket and pulling him up
Mr. Rabbit Meets His Match Again
-Buzzard and Rabbit growing crop together
-Buzzard didn't get his share
-Buzzard tells Rabbit he found a gold mine
-Buzzard carries Rabbit over the river
-Rabbit gets scared and is weak in the knees for months
A Story About The Little Rabbits
-Little rabbits are Brer Rabbits children.
-good children
-Fox wants to eat them but remembers when Wolf got boiled and skinned so is making an excuse to eat them
-"Take your toothies and gnaw it,Take your toothies and saw it,
Saw it and yoke it,
And then you can broke it."
Saw it and yoke it,
And then you can broke it."
-"Sifter hold water same as a tray,If you fill it with moss and dob it with clay;
The Fox get madder the longer you stay—
Fill it with moss and dob it with clay."
The Fox get madder the longer you stay—
Fill it with moss and dob it with clay."
-"Spit in your hands and tug it and toll it,And get behind it, and push it, and pole it;
Spit in your hands and rear back and roll it."
Spit in your hands and rear back and roll it."
-A little bird sang solutions to the problems that Fox gave them
Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
- goober- peanut
-cute- "acute"
-Rabbit got caught in Fox's trap
-told Bear he was making money being a scarecrow for Fox
-Rabbit tricked Bear into taking his place and told Fox he was stealing from him
-Fox beat him with a stick- "blip"
Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength
-all animals went to Miss Meadows to make molasses
-all are given jobs to do
-Miss Meadows said they weren't allowed to play tricks or fight each other and hung up a flag of truce at the gate
-rocking in chair repetitive
-terrapin says bear cant pull him out of a puddle
-got the rope and tied it to a tree root
The Story of The Deluge
-"way back yonder"
-not a beer rabbit story, but flood story
-Lion was king
-Rhinossy-hoss- Rhino
-elephant stepped on a crawfish and squished it
-Crawfish burrowed down into the earth and released water from the earth flooding it
Plantation Proverbs
Bibliography:
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).
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