Reading Notes: Brer Rabbit Part A

Brer Rabbit

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Story source: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1881).

• Fox was playing tricks on the rabbit
• The rabbit invited the fox for dinner but he hid around the corner and told him the next day he was too sick
• The fox played sick and invited the rabbit for dinner
• He tried to eat the rabbit but made an excuse and got away
• The fox made a tar baby and the rabbit thought it was real
• The rabbit hit the tar-baby because he thought it was something real and go stuck
• The fox popped out and laughed and said to come back for dinner
• The fox told the rabbit that he was going to throw him the the fire with the tar-baby and eat him but the rabbit begged him to do anything else
• The fox ended up throwing him in the pit but the ribbit got out and hopped away 
• Mr. Buzzard the turkey ran into the rabbit and protected him while he hid under a tree
• The fox came up and asked where he is and the turkey told him
• He waited and then eventually tried to chop down the tree but couldn't do so
• He got made at the turkey and said he was going to kill him but the turkey flew away
• The wolf and the fox devised a plan to get the rabbit but telling the rabbit that the fox was dead
• When he got to the house the fox wasn't dead and the rabbit got away again