More Brer Rabbit: Mr. Fox goes A-Hunting , Part B
More Brer Rabbit: Mr.Fox Goes A-Hunting
After Brer Fox heard about what Brer Rabbit had done to Brer Wolf, he pondered it and thought to leave Brer Rabbit alone. They would always see each other and there were so many instances when Brer Fox could have grabbed Brer Rabbit, but then he thought of Brer Wolf and he would change his mind and leave him alone.
Slowly they became familiar with each other. So familiar that they Brer Fox would invite Brer Rabbit to sit and smoke their pipes, like if they never had their differences.
One day Brer Fox asked Brer Rabbit to go hunting with him. Brer Rabbit felt lazy and told Brer Fox he had other things to do.
Brer Fox felt sorry but he thought at least he tried. He was gone all day, and he had great luck, he bagged a sight of game.
Brer rabbit would always stretch laid out under a tree, it was always when Brer Fox was heading home. Then Brer Rabbit he went and mounted a stump to see if he could hear Brer Fox coming. He wasn't waiting very long till he heard Brer fox singing and frolicking. Brer Rabbit jumped off the stump and laid out in the road like if he was dead.
Brer Fox came along and saw Brer rabbit laying there. He looked closely at Brer Rabbit and then turned him over. Then he said to himself " This Rabbit is dead. " He looked at him and thought about how he was dead but also very fat. He thought " he is the fattest Rabbit around these parts but he had been dead for a long period of time." Brer Fox feared to take him home.
Brer Fox decided he better not take him home. When Brer Fox was out of sight, Brer Rabbit jumped up and ran through the woods to lay ahead of Brer Fox again.
" These Rabbits rabbits are going to waste he thought. I'll leave my game here and go pick up the other rabbit and come back for this one here. People will think I'm a pro hunter."
Brer Fox left his game there with the supposedly dead Rabbit and went to retrieve the other fat dead Rabbit. When Brer Fox was out of sight Brer Rabbit jumped up and took the game and ran home.
Next time he saw Brer Fox he asked: " what you kill the other day?"
Brer Fox replied, " I caught a handful of Brer Rabbit."
Then old Brer Rabbit laughed and replied " If I would have known you were after that, I would have loaned you some of mine. "
Bibliography: This story is part of the More Brer Rabbit unit. Story source: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).
After Brer Fox heard about what Brer Rabbit had done to Brer Wolf, he pondered it and thought to leave Brer Rabbit alone. They would always see each other and there were so many instances when Brer Fox could have grabbed Brer Rabbit, but then he thought of Brer Wolf and he would change his mind and leave him alone.
Slowly they became familiar with each other. So familiar that they Brer Fox would invite Brer Rabbit to sit and smoke their pipes, like if they never had their differences.
One day Brer Fox asked Brer Rabbit to go hunting with him. Brer Rabbit felt lazy and told Brer Fox he had other things to do.
Brer Fox felt sorry but he thought at least he tried. He was gone all day, and he had great luck, he bagged a sight of game.
Brer rabbit would always stretch laid out under a tree, it was always when Brer Fox was heading home. Then Brer Rabbit he went and mounted a stump to see if he could hear Brer Fox coming. He wasn't waiting very long till he heard Brer fox singing and frolicking. Brer Rabbit jumped off the stump and laid out in the road like if he was dead.
Brer Fox came along and saw Brer rabbit laying there. He looked closely at Brer Rabbit and then turned him over. Then he said to himself " This Rabbit is dead. " He looked at him and thought about how he was dead but also very fat. He thought " he is the fattest Rabbit around these parts but he had been dead for a long period of time." Brer Fox feared to take him home.
Brer Fox decided he better not take him home. When Brer Fox was out of sight, Brer Rabbit jumped up and ran through the woods to lay ahead of Brer Fox again.
" These Rabbits rabbits are going to waste he thought. I'll leave my game here and go pick up the other rabbit and come back for this one here. People will think I'm a pro hunter."
Brer Fox left his game there with the supposedly dead Rabbit and went to retrieve the other fat dead Rabbit. When Brer Fox was out of sight Brer Rabbit jumped up and took the game and ran home.
Next time he saw Brer Fox he asked: " what you kill the other day?"
Brer Fox replied, " I caught a handful of Brer Rabbit."
Then old Brer Rabbit laughed and replied " If I would have known you were after that, I would have loaned you some of mine. "
Bibliography: This story is part of the More Brer Rabbit unit. Story source: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).
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