🧚 Opening, part 9 · page 2

Eh yent bin tree day arter dat wen lo an behole!81 Buh Wolf meet Buh Rabbit duh seddown een de big road, dist es content es ef nuttne bin happne, duh leek isself.82 Buh Wolf hail um an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, dat duh you?83 Enty me bin bun you up tarruh day?84 Why you duh do duh leek youself so happy an content?”85 Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Budder, dat holler way you bin try fuh bun me een, gone ter de top er de tree, an eh bin full er honey.86 De fire melt de honey, an eh run down an kibber me all ober.87 Me yent done git um all offer me tel now.88 You come tase me an see how sweet me yiz.”89 Buh Wolf so lub honey eh furgit eh spite gainst Buh Rabbit, an eh come up an eh taste um, an eh fine out say honey bin all ober Buh Rabbit.90 Den eh ax Buh Rabbit fuh show um one holler way him kin git some honey.91 Buh Rabbit gree fuh do so ef Buh Wolf would mek fren wid um.92 Dem shake ban, and den Buh Rabbit tell Buh Wolf fuh foiler um.93 Eh tek um ter one tree wuh hab holler on one side, but wuh shet up on tarruh side, an eh tell Buh Wolf say dat tree full er honey, an eh mus git een an crawl up nigh de top es eh could go.94 Buh Wolf trus Buh Rabbit, an eh gone een de holler.95 Soon es eh git een, Buh Rabbit tek one lightwood knot an eh chink up de hole so Buh Wolf couldnt come out.96 Den eh gedder some fat pine, an eh mek fire an eh bun Buh Wolf up een de holler.97 While eh duh bun, Buh Wolf bague an pray Buh Rabbit fuh leh um come out, but Buh Rabbit wouldnt yeddy um.98

Buh Rabbit leetle fuh true an eh yent strong, but eh berry scheemy an eh hab er bad heart.99

XL.100

BUH RABBIT AN DE CUNJUR MAN.101

Buh Rabbit greedy fuh hab mo sense den all de tarruh animel.102 Eh yent lub fuh wuk, an eh try heap er scheme fuh git eh libbin outer edder people by fool um.103

One time eh gone ter one wise Cunjur Man fuh larne um him way, an fuh git him knowledge, so him kin stonish tarruh people an mek dem bliebe say him bin wise mo ner ebrybody.104 De Cunjur Man larne um heap er curous ting.105 At las Buh Rabbit ax um fuh gen um eh full knowledge.106 De Cunjur Man say: “Buh Rabbit, you hab sense nough aready.”107 Buh Rabbit keep on bague um, an den de Cunjur Man mek answer: “Ef you kin ketch one big rattlesnake an fetch um ter me live, me gwine do wuh you ax me fuh do.”108

Buh Rabbit git ehself one long stick an eh gone der wood.109 Eh hunt tel eh fine one whalin ob er rattlesnake duh quile up on one log.110 Eh pass de time er day berry perlite wid um, an arterwards eh bet de snake say him yent bin es long as de stick wuh him hab een him han.111 Buh Rattlesnake laugh at um, an eh mek answer dat eh know eh yiz long mo na de stick.112 Fuh settle de bet Buh Rattlesnake tretch ehself out ter eh berry lenk on de log, an Buh Rabbit pit de pole long side er um fuh medjuh um.113 Man sir! befo Buh Rattlesnake fine out, Buh Rabbit slip one noose roun eh neck an fastne um tight ter de een der de pole.114 Buh Rattlesnake twis ehself, an wrop ehself roun an roun de pole, an try fuh git eh head loose, but all eh twis an tun yent do um no good.115 An so Buh Rabbit ketch um, an cahr um ter de Cunjur Man.116

De Cunjur Man rale suprise, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, me always bin yeddy say you bin hab heap er sense, but now me know dat you got um.117 Ef you kin fool Rattlesnake, you hab all de sense you want.”118 Wen Buh Rabbit keep on bague de Cunjur Man fuh gie um mo sense, de Cunjur Man answer: “You go fetch me er swarm er Yaller Jacket, an wen you bring um ter me, me prommus you teh gie you all de sense you want.”119

Ebrybody know say Yaller Jacket wus den warse, an bee, an hornet.120 Eh sting so bad, an eh berry lub fuh drap topper ebryting wuh come close eh nes, an dout gie um any warnin.121 So wuh Buh Rabbit do?122 Eh gone an eh git one big calabash, an eh crape um out clean, an eh cut one hole een um, an eh pit honey een um, an eh tie um on de een er one long pole.123 Den eh hunt tel eh fine er Yaller Jacket nes, an eh set de calabash close by um dout worry de Yaller Jacket, an eh leff um day, an eh tan off an watch um.124 Bimeby de Yaller Jacket scent de honey, an dem come out de nes an gone een de calabash fuh eat de honey.125 Wen de calabash full er Yaller Jacket, Buh Rabbit slip up an stop de hole, an cahr um ter de Cunjur Man.126 De Cunjur Man mek er great miration ober wuh Buh Rabbit bin done, an eh say: “Buh Rabbit, you is suttenly de smartest ob all de animel, an you sense shill git mo an mo ebry day.127 Mo na dat, me gwine pit white spot on you forrud, so ebrybody kin see you hab de bes sense een you head.”128 An dat de way Buh Rabbit come fuh hab er leely tuff er white hair between eh yez.129

XLI.130

BUH RABBIT, BUH FOX, AN DE FISHERMAN.131

Buh Rabbit es er soon man.132 You haffer git up befo day fuh head um.133 Wayebber you fine um, eh yez cock up fuh yeddy ebryting wuh duh gwine on.134 Eh nose duh twis from side ter side fuh ketch all de scent duh float een de element, an wen eh walk bout eh hop so light you tink der sperit.135 Eh lub fuh lib close big road an settlement, way him kin quaintun wid all wuh happne, an pick eh chance fuh mek eh libbin easy.136

One time er Ole Man hab er fish trap wuh mek wid bode.137 Eh hab er gate.138 Wen de tide duh come een de creek, de gate open an leh de fish een; an wen de tide duh gwine back der ribber, de gate shet an stop all de fish wuh day een de creek.139 Ebry low tide de Ole Man tek eh leely waggin an wisit eh trap, an collec de fish an pit um een eh waggin an cahr um home fuh him an eh fambly fuh eat.140