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In a story from Upper Egypt , a fox lies down in the road in front of a man who is carrying fowls to market , and finally succeeds in securing them . This similarity extends to almost every story quoted by Mr. Smith , and some are so ...
In a story from Upper Egypt , a fox lies down in the road in front of a man who is carrying fowls to market , and finally succeeds in securing them . This similarity extends to almost every story quoted by Mr. Smith , and some are so ...
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Curiously enough , I have found few negroes who will acknowledge to a stranger that they know anything of these legends ; and yet to relate one of these stories is the surest road to their confidence and esteem .
Curiously enough , I have found few negroes who will acknowledge to a stranger that they know anything of these legends ; and yet to relate one of these stories is the surest road to their confidence and esteem .
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along the big road — it is always the big road in contradistinction to neighbourhood paths and by - paths , called in the vernacular “ nigh - cuts ” —when he came to a pumpkin - patch . The Irishman had never seen any of this fruit ...
along the big road — it is always the big road in contradistinction to neighbourhood paths and by - paths , called in the vernacular “ nigh - cuts ” —when he came to a pumpkin - patch . The Irishman had never seen any of this fruit ...
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... to hisse'f dat he'd put up a game on Brer Rabbit , en he ain't mo'n got de wuds out'n his mouf twel Brer Rabbit come a lopin ' up de big road , lookin ' des ez plump , en es fat , en ez sassy ez a Moggin hoss in a barley - patch .
... to hisse'f dat he'd put up a game on Brer Rabbit , en he ain't mo'n got de wuds out'n his mouf twel Brer Rabbit come a lopin ' up de big road , lookin ' des ez plump , en es fat , en ez sassy ez a Moggin hoss in a barley - patch .
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En he didn't hatter wait long , nudder , kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin ' down de road — lippity - clippity , clippitylippity , —dez ez sassy ez a jay - bird . Brer Fox , he lay low . Brer Rabbit come prancin ' ' long twel he ...
En he didn't hatter wait long , nudder , kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin ' down de road — lippity - clippity , clippitylippity , —dez ez sassy ez a jay - bird . Brer Fox , he lay low . Brer Rabbit come prancin ' ' long twel he ...
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Página 6 - im wid dat calamus root, Brer Fox went ter wuk en got 'im some tar, en mix it wid some turkentime, en fix up a contrapshun wat he call a Tar-Baby, en he tuck dish yer Tar-Baby en he sot 'er in de big road, en den he lay off in de bushes fer to see wat de news wuz gwineter be. En he didn't hatter wait long, nudder, kaze bimeby here come Brer Rabbit pacin' down de road — lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity — dez ez sassy ez a jay-bird.
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Página 18 - Fox," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, "but do fer de Lord's sake don't fling me in dat brier-patch," sezee. "I ain't got no string," sez Brer Fox, sezee, "en now I speck I'll hatter drown you," sezee. "Drown me des ez deep ez you please, Brer Fox," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, "but do don't fling me in dat brierpatch,