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My liege, as clear as the vision of an eagle does my prophetic eye penetrate and lay bare the future of this world for nearly thirteen centuries and a half!" My land, you should have seen the king's eyes spread slowly open, and lift the earth's entire atmosphere as much as an inch! That settled Brer Merlin.
Buzzard, he tuck up his stan' at de hole. Bimeby, w'en all git still, Brer Rabbit sorter scramble down close ter de hole, he did, en holler out: "'Brer Fox! Oh! Brer Fox! "Brer Fox done gone, en nobody say nuthin'. Den Brer Rabbit squall out like he wuz mad; sezee: "'You needn't talk less you wanter, sezee; 'I knows you er dar, en I ain't keerin', sezee.
However, Brer Rabbit's knowledge of pedagogy shines forth in the following dialogue: W'en Brer Fox fine Brer Rabbit mixt up wid de Tar-Baby he feel mighty good, en he roll on de groun' en laff. Bimeby he up'n say, sezee: "Well, I speck I got you dis time, Brer Rabbit," sezee. "Maybe I ain't, but I speck I is.
"We mustn't on any account let Miss Russell think we'd a special motive in what we were doing." "Rather not! We'll 'lie low and say nuffin'', like Brer Rabbit," agreed Cicely. There was no lack of liveliness or occupation at the Manor to justify anybody in idling about the passages, and there were certainly many small excitements, apart from mysterious chambers or hidden treasures.
So, quick as she get a new kind of critter made, she turn him loose and tell him if he want to live he got to be right smart and find out for hisself how to do it. Ah reckons yo' know all about that, Brer Coyote." Old Man Coyote nodded, and Ol' Mistah Buzzard scratched his bald head gently as if trying to stir up his memory.
"'Is dey many un um down dar, Brer Rabbit? sez Brer Fox, sezee. "'Lots un um, Brer Fox; scoze en scoze un um. De water is natchully 'live wid um. Come down en he'p me haul um in, Brer Fox, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee. "'How I gwineter git down, Brer Rabbit? "'Jump inter de bucket, Brer Fox. Hit'll fetch you down all safe en soun'.
Brer Rabbit wuz bleedzed fer ter fling back some er his sass, en he holler out: "'Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox bred en bawn in a brier-patch! en wid dat he skip out des ez lively ez a cricket in de embers."
"'I'm oblije ter you, Brer Fox, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, 'but I'm fear'd she's done gone by now, en dat sorter make Brer Fox en Brer Possum feel in mo'nin' wid Brer Rabbit. "Bimeby, w'en dinner-time come, dey all got out der vittles, but Brer Rabbit keep on lookin' lonesome, en Brer Fox en Brer Possum dey sorter rustle roun' fer ter see ef dey can't make Brer Rabbit feel sorter splimmy."
"Brer B'ar he wrop de bed-cord roun' his han, en wink at de gals, en wid dat he gin a big juk, but Brer Tarrypin ain't budge. Den he take bof han's en gin a big pull, but, all de same, Brer Tarrypin ain't budge.
"Cum down ter dat, Brer Ab," said Uncle Remus, wiping his spectacles carefully, and readjusting them "cum down ter dat, an' dey ain't nuthin' dat ain't cu'us.
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