Nights with Uncle Remus
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
I - Mr. Fox and Miss Goose
II - Brother Fox Catches Mr. Horse
III - Brother Rabbit and the Little Girl
IV - How Brother Fox Was Too Smart
V - Brother Rabbit’s Astonishing Prank
VI - Brother Rabbit Secures a Mansion
VII - Mr. Lion Hunts for Mr. Man
VIII - The Story of the Pigs
IX - Mr. Benjamin Ram and His Wonderful Fiddle
X - Brother Rabbit’s Riddle
XI - How Mr. Rooster Lost His Dinner
XII - Brother Rabbit Breaks up a Party
XIII - Brother Fox, Brother Rabbit, and King Deer’s Daughter
XIV - Brother Terrapin Deceives Brother Buzzard
XV - Brother Fox Covets the Quills
XVI - How Brother Fox Failed to Get His Grapes
XVII - Mr. Fox Figures as an Incendiary
XVIII - A Dream and a Story
XIX - The Moon in the Mill-Pond
XX - Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise
XXI - Why Brother Bear Has No Tail
XXII - How Brother Rabbit Frightened His Neighbors
XXIII - Mr. Man Has Some Meat
XXIV - How Brother Rabbit Got the Meat
XXV - African Jack
XXVI - Why the Alligator’s Back Is Rough
XXVII - Brother Wolf Says Grace
XXVIII - Spirits, Seen and Unseen
XXIX - A Ghost Story
XXX - Brother Rabbit and His Famous Foot
XXXI - “In Some Lady’s Garden”
XXXII - Brother ’Possum Gets in Trouble
XXXIII - Why the Guinea-Fowls Are Speckled
XXXIV - Brother Rabbit’s Love-Charm
XXXV - Brother Rabbit Submits to a Test
XXXVI - Brother Wolf Falls a Victim
XXXVII - Brother Rabbit and the Mosquitoes
XXXVIII - The Pimmerly Plum
XXXIX - Brother Rabbit Gets the Provisions
XL - “Cutta Cord-La!”
XLI - Aunt Tempy’s Story
XLII - The Fire-Test
XLIII - The Cunning Snake
XLIV - How Brother Fox Was Too Smart
XLV - Brother Wolf Gets in a Warm Place
XLVI - Brother Wolf Still in Trouble
XLVII - Brother Rabbit Lays in His Beef Supply
XLVIII - Brother Rabbit and Mr. Wildcat
XLIX - Mr. Benjamin Ram Defends Himself
L - Brother Rabbit Pretends to Be Poisoned
LI - More Trouble for Brother Wolf
LII - Brother Rabbit Outdoes Mr. Man
LIII - Brother Rabbit Takes a Walk
LIV - Old Grinny-Granny Wolf
LV - How Wattle Weasel Was Caught
LVI - Brother Rabbit Ties Mr. Lion
LVII - Mr. Lion’s Sad Predicament
LVIII - The Origin of the Ocean
LIX - Brother Rabbit Gets Brother Fox’s Dinner
LX - How the Bear Nursed the Little Alligator
LXI - Why Mr. Dog Runs Brother Rabbit
LXII - Brother Wolf and the Horned Cattle
LXIII - Brother Fox and the White Muscadines
LXIV - Mr. Hawk and Brother Buzzard
LXV - Mr. Hawk and Brother Rabbit
LXVI - The Wise Bird and the Foolish Bird
LXVII - Old Brother Terrapin Gets Some Fish
LXVIII - Brother Fox Makes a Narrow Escape
LXIX - Brother Fox’s Fish-Trap
LXX - Brother Rabbit Rescues Brother Terrapin
LXXI - The Night Before Christmas
NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS was born in Eatonton, Georgia, in 1845. Setting type and learning to write under Joseph Addison Turner’s mentoring at nearby Turnwold Plantation, Harris later worked for newspapers in Macon and Forsyth. He served as Associate Editor for the Savannah Morning News (1870-1876) and for the Atlanta Constitution (1876-1900). Harris earned reputations as a literary comedian, a talented and resourceful amateur folklorist, a local-color fiction writer, a children’s author, and a major New South journalist. He wrote 185 Uncle Remus tales, seven volumes of short fiction, four novels and six collections of children’s stories. Harris’s portraits of poor whites and his socio-logically and rhetorically complex Brer Rabbit trickster stories have influenced generations of writers, from Mark Twain to Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Julius Lester. Harris’s creation of highly animated, believably anthropomorphic animal characters also helped reinvent the modern children’s story, from Rudyard Kipling’s jungle tales to Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit stories. Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby have also become popular culture icons. Harris died in 1908.
JOHN T. BICKLEY earned his B.A. in Literature from Florida State University and his M.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently working as a fiction editor and completing his Ph.D. in Medieval English Literature, with a minor in Film, at Florida State.
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