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[Illustration: _Drawn by A. B. Frost_

“_Is anybody ever hear de beat er dat?_”--“_Brother Rabbit’s
Laughing-Place_”]




                             _Told by_
                            UNCLE REMUS

                         New Stories of the
                           Old Plantation

                                _by_
                        JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

                          _Illustrated by_
                      A. B. FROST, J. M. CONDE
                        _and_ FRANK UERBECK

                          GROSSET & DUNLAP
                            _Publishers_
                              NEW YORK

                 _Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, by_
                        JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

        Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, by P. F. Collier & Son
    Copyright, 1904, 1905, by The Metropolitan Magazine Company

                    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
                                 AT
             THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.




CONTENTS


                                                              PAGE

         THE REASON WHY                                          3

       I WHY MR. CRICKET HAS ELBOWS ON HIS LEGS                 19

      II HOW WILEY WOLF RODE IN THE BAG                         37

     III BROTHER RABBIT’S LAUGHING-PLACE                        53

      IV BROTHER RABBIT AND THE CHICKENS                        74

       V LITTLE MISTER CRICKET AND THE OTHER CREATURES          87

      VI WHEN BROTHER RABBIT WAS KING                          101

     VII HOW OLD CRANEY-CROW LOST HIS HEAD                     126

    VIII BROTHER FOX FOLLOWS THE FASHION                       141

      IX WHY THE TURKEY-BUZZARD IS BALD-HEADED                 153

       X BROTHER DEER AN’ KING SUN’S DAUGHTER                  172

      XI BROTHER RABBIT’S CRADLE                               188

     XII BROTHER RABBIT AND BROTHER BULL-FROG                  205

    XIII WHY MR. DOG IS TAME                                   230

     XIV BROTHER RABBIT AND THE GIZZARD EATER                  243

      XV BROTHER RABBIT AND MISS NANCY                         266

     XVI THE HARD-HEADED WOMAN                                 276




LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS


    “IS ANYBODY EVER HEAR DE BEAT ER DAT?”           _Frontispiece_

                                                       FACING PAGE

    “SO HE HOLLER DOWN THOO DE CRACK”                           34

    “‘DOES YOU CALL DIS GOOD LUCK?’”                            36

    “DEY SOT DAR … TALKIN’ ’BOUT OL’ TIMES”                     44

    “‘GIT ’IM USE TER DE BAG’”                                  48

    “‘DEN YOU COME ON HOME; YO’ MAMMY WANT YOU’”                50

    “WENT OFF HOME DES EZ GAYLY EZ A COLT IN A BARLEY PATCH”    80

    “‘BRER RABBIT, WHAR YOU GWINE?’”                            82

    “BRER FOX, SAY, ‘GENTS, … I WANTER TELL YOU DAT I’M DE
     SWIFFES’ ONE IN DIS BUNCH’”                                92

    “MR. ELEPHANT WENT SPLUNGIN’ THOO DE WOODS SAME EZ A
     HARRYCANE”                                                 96

    “SO HIS OL’ ’OMAN WENT OUT TER DE WOODPILE AN’ GOT DE AX”  150

    “SHE DREMP DAT BRER RABBIT WUZ LAUGHIN’ AT ’ER”            152

    “BRER DEER WENT ON FER TER TELL BRER RABBIT”               180

    “DE BEAU GOT TER FLINGIN’ HIS SASS ROUN’ BRER RABBIT”      272

    “DE GAL, SHE CRY SOME, BUT DEY WENT OFF AN’ GOT MARRIED”   274

    “DEN HE SHUCK A GOURD-VINE OVER DE POT”                    286

    “DE AX, IT CLUM BACK ON TOP ER DE WOODPILE AN’ FELL
     OFF ON T’ER SIDE”                                         290

    “DEN SHE LIT OUT ATTER DE POT LIKE