Brer Rabbit treats Brer Fox as a horse
Ties him to a rack as he goes to hang out with girls- smoking, playing music, etc.,
When Rabbit/Fox leave, Fox turns loose- tries to buck Rabbit off of him (jumping very high, tearing up the ground)
Fox gets tired, Rabbit runs into the forest to get away
Rabbit squeezes into hole in base of tree, Fox lies outside to wait/gather his mind
Buzzard comes along and thinks Fox is dead; Fox makes a deal w/ Buzzard to help him catch Rabbit
Fox leaves to get an axe while Buzzard keeps watch
Rabbit tells Buzzard there’s a big squirrel in the tree to tempt him
Rabbit tells Buzzard he’ll help him drive the squirrel out so Buzzard can eat him
Buzzard at one side of the tree, Rabbit will run through the tree to drive the squirrel toward the Buzzard
Rabbit kicks up dirt to make it appear the squirrel is coming
Buzzard dives into the tree, gets stuck, Rabbit runs towards home
Brer Rabbit runs into Brer Bear
Asks him how Miss Brune (Bear’s wife) and Miss Brindle (Bear’s girlfriend) are doing
While they talk, Brer Bear secretly wants to nab/eat Brer Rabbit
Rabbit tells Bear that he found an “old-time bee tree” oozing with honey (aka beehive)
Bear wants the honey to feed his family, Rabbit takes him to it
Bear starts to climb the tree; Rabbit takes a pine pole to “shove the honey to where Bear can get it”
Bear gets to the top, sticks his head in the hive; Rabbit hits the hive to rile up the bees
Bees sting Bear, his head swells up so he can’t remove his head
Bear ends up hanging from the tree with his head stuck in the hive; Rabbit runs away in relief
Brer Wolf coming back from fishing trip; smells Miss Partridge nearby
Wolf sets his fish down, goes to find Partridge to eat her
Brer Rabbit sees fishes, takes them; Wolf comes back and finds them missing (but knows Rabbit was in the area)
Wolf goes to Rabbit’s house to ask where the fish are; Rabbit denies it
Rabbit says “If you really believe I have your fish, you can go kill my best cow”
Wolf goes to Rabbit’s pasture to kill a cow; Wolf hears slave patrol, runs into underbrush
While he’s gone, Rabbit kills a cow, skins and cuts it; sticks the cow tail into the ground
Rabbit calls out to Wolf; convinces him the cow is stuck in the ground
They yank out the tail; Rabbit convinces Wolf that the now tailless cow is still in the ground
Brer Wolf grabs digging tools (spade, shovel, pick axe) to try and dig up the cow
Brer Rabbit goes to his porch to watch Wolf dig for no reason and laughs at him
Rabbit and his kids have tons of cow meat to enjoy
Story Source: Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit Riding Brer Fox, via the Untextbook
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