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BRER RABBIT GROSSLY DECEIVES BRER Fox (PAGE 324)

This tale was first published in the Atlanta Constitution, Decem ber 21, 1879, m the department entitled "Uncle Remus s Folk Lore." It is here reprinted from that source. Tar-baby: see The Wonderful Tar-baby Story " in "Uncle Remus, his Songs and his Sayings." pusly; parsley.

THE CUNNING Fox is AGAIN VICTIMIZED (PAGE 328)

This story appeared in the Atlanta Constitution, December 25, 1879, from which it is here taken. ingun: onion. patter-rollers: patrols, that is, officers commissioned to look out for negroes who had slipped away without permission from their plantations.

QUESTIONS, i. How does the introduction of Uncle Remus, the little

boy, etc. add to the interest of the stories? 2. The author has sug gested that the stories of the rabbit and the fox may be to some extent allegorical. Attempt an interpretation of this character. 3. What significance is to be attached to the fact that the rabbit is generally victorious? 4. Is the rabbit intended to typify the negro race?

MARY NOAILLES MURFREE ("CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK ")

THE "HARNT" THAT WALKS CHILHOWEE (PAGE 332)

This selection is from one of the stories in the writer s first volume,

"In the Tennessee Mountains." cor ner: coroner. laurel: rhododendron, which in the vernacular of the mountains is called laurel.

QUESTIONS, i. What is the story of Reuben Crabb? 2. What does

Clarsie do for him? 3. What characteristics of the mountaineers are exhibited in this story?

THOMAS NELSON PAGE

MARSE CHAN (SUMMARY) (PAGE 342)

The author has given the following account of how the story came to be written: Just then a friend showed me a letter which had been written by a young girl to her sweetheart in a Georgia regiment, telling him that she had discovered that