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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