Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

by Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus:

His Songs and His Sayings

The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

By Joel Chandler Harris

With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser

New York
D. Appleton and Company
1, 3, and 5 Bond Street

1886

Contents

• Preface and Dedication to the New Edition
• Introduction

Legends of the Old Plantation

• I. Uncle Remus initiates the Little Boy
• II. The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
• III. Why Mr. Possum loves Peace
• IV. How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox
• V. The Story of the Deluge, and how it came about
• VI. Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox
• VII. Mr. Fox is again victimized
• VIII. Mr. Fox is “outdone” by Mr. Buzzard
• IX. Miss Cow falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit
• X. Mr. Terrapin appears upon the Scene
• XI. Mr. Wolf makes a Failure
• XII. Mr. Fox tackles Old Man Tarrypin
• XIII. The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
• XIV. Mr. Fox and the Deceitful Frogs
• XV. Mr. Fox goes a-hunting, but Mr. Rabbit bags the Game
• XVI. Old Mr. Rabbit, he’s a Good Fisherman
• XVII. Mr. Rabbit nibbles up the Butter
• XVIII. Mr. Rabbit finds his Match at last
• XIX. The Fate of Mr. Jack Sparrow
• XX. How Mr. Rabbit saved his Meat
• XXI. Mr. Rabbit meets his Match again
• XXII. A Story about the Little Rabbits
• XXIII. Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
• XXIV. Mr. Bear catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
• XXV. How Mr. Rabbit lost his Fine Bushy Tail
• XXVI. Mr. Terrapin shows his Strength
• XXVII. Why Mr. Possum has no Hair on his Tail
• XXVIII. The End of Mr. Bear
• XXIX. Mr. Fox gets into Serious Business
• XXX. How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a Dust
• XXXI. A Plantation Witch
• XXXII. “Jacky-my-Lantern”
• XXXIII. Why the Negro is Black
• XXXIV. The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox

Plantation Proverbs

• Plantation Proverbs

His Songs

• I. Revival Hymn
• II. Camp-Meeting Song
• III. Corn-Shucking Song
• IV. The Plough-hands Song
• V. Christmas Play-Song
• VI. Plantation Play-Song
• VII. Transcriptions
• VIII. De Big Bethel Church
• IX. Time goes by Turns

A Story of the War

• A Story of the War

His Sayings

• I. Jeems Rober’son’s Last Illness
• II. Uncle Remus’s Church Experience
• III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey
• IV. Turnip Salad as a Text
• V. A Confession
• VI. Uncle Remus with the Toothache
• VII. The Phonograph
• VIII. Race Improvement
• IX. In the Rôle of a Tartar
• X. A Case of Measles
• XI. The Emigrants
• XII. As a Murderer
• XIII. His Practical View of Things
• XIV. That Deceitful Jug
• XV. The Florida Watermelon
• XVI. Uncle Remus preaches to a Convert
• XVII. As to Education
• XVIII. A Temperance Reformer
• XIX. As a Weather Prophet
• XX. The Old Man’s Troubles
• XXI. The Fourth of July