The Favorite Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Author:Joel Chandler Harris [Harris, Joel Chandler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Childrens
ISBN: 9780395068007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1948-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

34

Brer Rabbit Loses his Luck

IN THE DAYS when Brer Rabbit was sort of keeping the neighborhoods stirred up, the other creatures was studying and studying the whole blessed time how they going to nab him. They ain’t had no holiday yet, because when the holiday come, they’d go to work, they would, and juggle with one another for to see how they going to catch up with Brer Rabbit. By me by, when all their plans, and their traps, and their jugglements ain’t do no good, they all agreed, they did, that Brer Rabbit got some conjourment what he trick them with. Brer B’ar, he up and allow, he did, that he bound Brer Rabbit is a natural born witch; Brer Wolf say, says he, that he expect Brer Rabbit just in cahoots with a witch; and Brer Fox, he vow that Brer Rabbit got more luck than smartness. Then Judge B’ar, he dropped he head one side, he did, and he asked how come Brer Rabbit got all the luck on he own side. The more they ask, the more they get pestered, and the more they get pestered, the worse they worry. Day in and day out they work with this puzzlement; let alone that, they sat up nights; and by me by they agreed amongst themselves that they better make up with Brer Rabbit, and see if they can’t find out how come he so lucky.

Whiles all this going on, old Brer Rabbit was a-galloping around from Funtown to Frolicville, a-kicking up the devilment and terrifying the neighborhoods. It kept on this a-way, until one time, enduring the odd-come-shorts, old Judge B’ar sent word that one of his children done been tooken with a sickness, and he asked won’t old Miss Rabbit drop around and sit up with him. Ole Miss Rabbit, she say, of course she go, and after she fill her satchel full of herebs and truck, off she put.

I done forgot, said Uncle Remus, scratching his head gravely, which one of the children was ailin’. It might have been Kubs, and it might have been Klibs; but no matter for that. When old Miss Rabbit get there, old Miss B’ar was a-sitting up in the chimney-corner just a-dosing and a-nursing the young one; and all the women of the neighborhoods was there, a-whispering and a-talkin’, just for all the world like women does these days. It was:

“Come right in, Sis Rabbit! I mighty proud to see you. I mighty glad you fetched your knittin’, because I’m powerful poor comp’ny when my children sick. Just fling your bonnet on the bed there. I’m that frustrated until I don’t know which ends up scarcely. Sis Wolf, hand Sis Rabbit that rockin’-chair there, because it ain’t no one step from her house to mine.”

That’s the way old Miss B’ar run on, and they sat there and they chatter and they clatter. Ole Brer Wolf, he was sitting out on the back piazzer smoking and noddin’. He would

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