🧚 Opening, part 6

People orter tek notus er Buh Eagle an do jes es him do.1 Wen you chillun git big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.2 Dont leh um set bout de house duh do nuttne, an duh spek eh farruh an eh murrer fuh fine bittle an cloze fuh um.3 Ef you does, you chillun gwine mek you shame, an eh will tun out berry triflin.4 Eh will keep you dead po, too.5

Do same luk Buh Eagle.6 Mine you chillun well wen dem leetle; an soon es dem big nough fuh wuk, mek um wuk.7

XXVI.8

CHANTICLEER AN DE BAN-YAD ROOSTER.9

You nebber bin see er finer bud den Buh Chanticleer.10 Eh fedder eh glisten same luk silber een de sun. Eh step so high, an eh yent faid nuttne.11 Wen eh crow you could yeddy um all tru de settlement.12 De hen all lub um, an run ter um wenebber him call.13 Eh can lick all dem tarruh rooster; an jist es soon es eh mek motion at dem, dem run.14

Befo eh bin fine um out fuh true, day bin er big yaller Rooster een de gang wuh try fuh spute Buh Chanticleer, an mek eh brag say eh kin lick um.15 Dem fight.16 De big yaller Rooster couldnt tan up befo Buh Chanticleer.17 Eh gaff um, eh pick um een eh back, eh knock um ober, an eh run um out de yad.18

Arter dat, de yaller Rooster faid fuh come nigh Buh Chanticleer.19 Eh run ebry time eh see Buh Chanticleer duh walk towuds um, but eh hab a way fuh debble Buh Chanticleer.20 Eh go way off, an ebry time eh yeddy Buh Chanticleer flap eh wing an crow, him do de same.21 Soon a mornin wen Buh Chanticleer crow fuh day, de big yaller Rooster, him crow too.22 De ting bodder Buh Chanticleer, an eh want fuh kill um.23 Eh try hard fuh fine out way eh roose.24 One day one er de hen wuh blanks ter Buh Chanticleer fambly mek um sensible jist way de yaller Rooster blan roose.25 Den Buh Chanticleer, him sen fuh Buh Fox.26 Eh come, an Buh Chanticleer ax um say: “You want one fat Rooster fuh eat?”27 Buh Fox, him answer: “Yes, me berry glad fuh git um, an heap er tenky ter you too.”28

Den Buh Chanticleer tell um fuh come de fus moon-shiny night, an him will show um way eh kin git a good supper.29 Buh Fox happy, an eh prommus fuh come.30 Eh did come de fus moon-shiny night, an Buh Chanticleer gone long um an pint out de big yaller Rooster duh sleep een one low cedar tree.31 Buh Fox creep up easy, an graff um an eat um.32 Wen eh done eat um, an eh duh lick eh mout, Buh Chanticleer ax um: “How you luk um?”33 Buh Fox mek answer: “Me luk um berry well.34 Eh bin fat.35 Eh meat sweet.36 Me luk um summuch me want mo.”37 Wid dat, an befo Buh Chanticleer kin mek out wuh eh tend fuh do, eh jump pon topper Buh Chanticleer, an mash um ter det, an eat um up.38

Wen you want somebody fuh do you sarbis, call pon you fren, but dont trus you eenemy fuh done um.39

XXVII.40

BUH RABBIT AN DE GROUN-MOLE.41

Day nebber bin a man wuh kin equel Buh Rabbit fuh mek plan fuh lib offer tarruh people bedout wuk isself.42 Groun-mole, bin berry tick.43 On ebry side dem bin er root up de tetter patch, and stroy pinder.44 Nobody know how fuh ketch um, case eh wuk onder de groun, an wen you go fuh fine um eh yent dedday.45

Buh Rabbit, him see eh chance, an eh tell ebry body him know how fuh stroy um.46 De ting come ter Buh Wolf yez, an eh sen fuh Buh Rabbit.47 Buh Rabbit gone ter Buh Wolf, an eh tell um yes, him hab plan fuh clear de fiel er Groun-mole, an dat him wunt charge Buh Wolf nuttne but him board an lodgment wile him duh ketch an kill de Groun-mole.48 Buh Wolf, him say Buh Rabbit berry kine, an eh gree fuh fine um.49 Den Buh Wolf hab one nice bed mek up fuh Buh Rabbit, an eh tell eh wife fuh feed um well.50

Buh Wolf hab some bidness wuh call um way from home, an eh spec fuh gone bout one week.51 Eh leff Buh Rabbit fuh clean de Groun-mole outer eh fiel, an den eh gone.52 Buh Rabbit, him well saterfy.53 Ebry mornin, arter brukwus, eh mobe off luk eh bin gwine ter Buh Wolf fiel, an nobody shum tel dinner time.54 Arter eh done eat er hebby dinner, eh gone gen tel supper time, wen eh come back an eat er hebby supper, an den eh leddown der bed.55

Nobody kin see any Groun-mole wuh Buh Rabbit der ketch, but eh tell Buh Wolf wife dat eh bin er kill heap er dem ebry day, an dat eh gwine soon clear de fiel.56 De ting gone on dis way tel Buh Wolf tun home.57 Wen eh retch eh house eh quire bout Buh Rabbit, an eh wife tell um wuh Buh Rabbit bin er say an er do, an dat Buh Rabbit gone der fiel dist arter brukwus.58 Buh Wolf say him gwine see fuh ehself wuh Buh Rabbit duh do, an wuh plan eh fix fuh ketch de Groun-mole.59

Wen eh git der fiel eh look up an down, an eh yent see no sign er Buh Rabbit.60 Eh notus eh crap, an de Groun-mole duh eat um wus den nebber.61 Eh sarche fuh Buh Rabbit track, an eh cant shum no way.62 Buh Wolf mek up eh mine dat Buh Rabbit yent do de fus ting een de fiel.63 De sun hot.64 Buh Wolf gone een de edge er de wood, an day eh come pon topper Buh Rabbit tretch out een er bed wuh eh bin mek outer pine straw onder one tree, fas tersleep.65 Eh yent bin study bout Buh Wolf, er de Groun-mole wuh bin er bodder de fiel.66 Buh Wolf slip up, an eh graff um tight.67 Buh Rabbit so skade eh furgit fuh lie, an Buh Wolf mek um confess eh yent know how fuh ketch Groun-mole, dat eh nebber did kill none, an dat eh bin lib offer Buh Wolf bittle ebber sence eh leff.68

Buh Wolf, him so bex eh git grape wine an eh tie Buh Rabbit han an foot, an eh lick um tel eh tired.69 All dis time Buh Rabbit bin eh holler an er bague.70 At lenk Buh Wolf loose um, an run um offer de place.71

Eh yent offen Buh Rabbit ketch at him trick, but eh meet eh match dis time.72

XXVIII.73

BUH RABBIT AN DE ROCK-SOUP.74

Anurrer way Buh Rabbit hab fuh mek eh libbin bedout wuk bin dis.75 Eh hab een eh pocket er pooty, smoode rock, bout de size ob er tukrey agg.76 Wid dem people wuh no quaintun wid um eh pass ehself off fuh er fus-class cook, an eh tell um say eh hab one rock wuh mek pruppus fuh gie soup de bes tase; an dat de soup wuh mek long dat rock sweeter den all edder soup.77

Eh gone ter Buh Bear house, an Buh Bear hearky ter um, an gage um fuh mek some soup long eh rock.78 Buh Rabbit pit on de pot, an eh bile water een um long de stone.79 Den eh call fuh meat, an wegetable, an all kind er seaznin, an eh stir um an eh cook um all togerrur, an eh did mek er nice soup.80 Eh fool Buh Bear, an eh mek um bliebe say eh bin de rock wuh gib sich er rich flaber ter de soup, wen de fac bin say de rock yent hab nuttne fuh do long um, but de tarruh ting wuh gone een de pot, dem duh de ting wuh mek de soup.81 Buh Rabbit git big dinner at Buh Bear house dat day.82