🧚 Opening, part 5 · page 2

XXIV.102

BUH WOLF, BUH RABBIT, AN DE BUTTER.103

Buh Wolf, him hire Buh Rabbit fuh help um wuk eh crap.104 Eh crap, eh day een de grass, an Buh Wolf faid eh gwine loss um.105 Befo dem state der fiel, Buh Rabbit notus say Buh Wolf hab een him house er nice pan er fresh butter.106 Eh mout water fuh git some, but eh shame fuh bague Buh Wolf.107 Buh Rabbit, him berry lub fuh tief, an eh mek eh plan fuh git some er dat butter.108

Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit done gone der fiel an tun een fuh wuk.109 De sun hot, an befo long Buh Rabbit biggin fuh drap behine.110 Den all ob er sutten eh trow down eh hoe, an eh look way off, an eh cock up eh yez, an eh holler out: “Me yeddy you.111 Me duh comin.”112 Buh Wolf, him tun roun, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, wuh you duh do?113 You mus be der tun fool.114 Nobody duh call you.”115 Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin er call me, an me know who dem yiz, an wuffer dem duh call me.116 Enty you sabe me duh preacher?117 Well, me prommus fuh bactize er chile dis berry hour, an me mus go fuh keep me pintment.”118 “Berry well,” answer Buh Wolf, “dont you loss no time, fuh dis crap want wuk berry bad.”119

Buh Rabbit hop off luk eh bin gwine in anarruh direction from dat wuh lead to Buh Wolf house.120 Wen eh git een de wood, eh slip roun onbeknowinst ter Buh Wolf, an gone een him house an eat hebby outer de pan er butter.121 Eh wipe eh mouf, an eh sukkle back tell eh git ter de place een de fiel way eh bin leff eh hoe.122 Eh seem berry merry, an wen Buh Wolf ax um ef he done bactize de chile, eh say yes.123 Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh dem bin name de chile, an Buh Rabbit tell um say dem bin call um _Fus Biginnin_.124

Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit wuk on.125 Dem binner hoe tetter.126 De butter sweeten Buh Rabbit.127 Him couldnt stop from tink topper um.128 Eh biggin fuh want mo.129 De mo eh study bout um de slower eh wuk.130 Buh Wolf call ter um an tell um fuh hurry.131 Buh Rabbit mek answer an say eh yiz duh hurry.132 Bless you soul! een a little while Buh Rabbit, him drap eh hoe an eh holler out: “You right; me bin mose furgit; me comin right off.”133 Buh Wolf, him stonish, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you must be loss you sense; who you duh holler teh?134 Nobody duh call you.”135 Buh Rabbit mek answer: “Somebody yiz bin a call me.136 Enty you yeddy um?”137 Buh Wolf say: “No, me no yeddy.”138 Den Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh hab gagement fur bactize nurrur chile at dis berry hour, an eh mose bin furgit bout um tell eh murrer an eh farruh holler ter um outer de wood an member um.139 Buh Wolf mek jection gainst Buh Rabbit gwine, but wen Buh Rabbit tell um de chile gwine loss ef eh no git bactize, Buh Wolf lem go.140 Buh Rabbit do dist iz eh bin done befo.141 Eh gone een Buh Wolf house, eh tek down de pan gen, an eh eat mona half de butter.142 Wen eh ketch de fiel, Buh Wolf ax um ef eh done bactize tarruh chile, an eh answer eh yiz.143 Buh Wolf say: “Duh him duh gal er boy?”144 Buh Rabbit mek answer say: “Him duh gal.”145 “Wuh eh name?” questun Buh Wolf.146 “_Half-way_,” answer Buh Rabbit.147

Dem wuk on tel de sun biggin fuh lean een de wes.148 Buh Rabbit still duh study bout dat butter.149 Eh yent willin fuh go ter eh home an leff any behine.150 So een de tree hour eh pit eh han up ter eh yez an eh listne.151 Den eh holler out de turd time, an eh say: “Go on, me duh comin.”152 Buh Wolf ax um.153 “Way you duh gwine now?154 Enty you done bactize chillun?”155 Buh Rabbit tell um eh hab one mo fuh bactize befo sun down, but eh wunt tek um long becase eh lib close by.156 Den Buh Rabbit slip roun ter Buh Wolf house an clean up de las er de butter.157 Eh yent leff one grain een de pan.158

Wen eh git back Buh Wolf say: “You bactize dat chillun een er hurry; wuh eh name?”159 Buh Rabbit up an tell um say eh name _Scrapin er de bottom_.160 Buh Wolf, him nebber bin spicion wuh Buh Rabbit bin up teh.161 De time come fuh knock off wuk, an wen Buh Wolf want fuh dock Buh Rabbit fuh de time eh loss wen eh bin gone fuh bactize dem tree chillun, Buh Rabbit plead so harde case him bin preacher, dat Buh Wolf, him furgib um an pay um eh full wager.162 Den eh inwite Buh Rabbit fuh come long um an tek supper wid um.163 But Buh Rabbit scuse ehself, an light out fer him house, an leff Buh Wolf een de fiel.164 Buh Rabbit berry scheemy.165 Eh know say ef eh did bin gone home wid Buh Wolf eh would er see eh track, an fine out who eat eh butter, an dat eh would er lick um.166

XXV.167

DE EAGLE AN EH CHILLUN.168

De Eagle, him duh er wise bud.169 Eh mek eh nes on one tall pine tree close de ribber, er de sea, way nuttne kin git at um.170 Eh saterfy wid two chillun.171 Eh tek good care er um.172 Ebry hour eh fetch um snake an fish, an eh garde um from win an rain an fowl-hawk, an mek um grow fas.173 Wen eh wing kibber wid fedder an eh strong nough fur fly, wuh Buh Eagle do?174 Eh wunt leff dem chillun een de nes fuh lazy an lib pon topper eh farruh an eh murrer, but eh tek um on eh wing, an eh sail ober de sea, an eh tell eh chillun: “De time come fuh you fuh mek you own libbin.175 Me feed you long nough.176 Now you haffer look out fuh youself.”177 Wid dat, eh fly from onder dem, an de noung bud, wen eh fine out eh murrer yent gwine cahr um no furder, an dat dem haffer shif fuh demself, dem try eh wing an sail off een de element duh hunt bittle.178