Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus Author:Joel Chandler Harris AUTHOR'S NOTE WITH the exception of the Tar-Baby story and one other, all the folk-lore stories herein embodied are new, having come into my hands from various sources during the past ten years. The Tar-Baby story has been thrown into a rhymed form for the purpose of presenting and preserving what seems to be the genuine version. Those who care ... more »for the narratives themselves will no doubt overlook the somewhat monotonous character of the verse. When Uncle Remus sets himself to produce new stories in a form that would seem to be alien to his methods, it is inevitable that his efforts should move along the line of least resistance, which in English is the iambic four-beat movement, the simplest form of narrative verse. Under the circumstances, and in view of his environment, it is natural that he should pay small attention to the misleading rules of the professors of prosody, who seem to have not the slightest notion of the science of English verse. His instinctive love o
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby; De Appile-Tree ; De 'Gater and de Rabbit Gizzard; A Wishing Song ; Page; 3; 19; 27; 35; How Brer Tarrypin Learned to Fly 41; "It's Good to be Old if You Know How to Do" 49; The Hard-Headed Woman; Two Tales in One-One Tale in Two; Why the Frog Has No Tail ; Uncle Remus Captures a Dream; Why the Buzzard's Head is Bald; De 01' Stand-Bys; Brer Rabbit's Gigglin' -Place; Mr Rabbit Run Fur-Mr Rabbit Run Fas'; Baylor's Mail ; xi; 75; 83; 91; IOI; 107; I 17; 123 Revival Hymn; Camp-Meeting Song; Corn-Shucking Song; The Plough-Hands' Song ; Christmas Play-Song; Plantation Play-Song; Transcriptions; I A Plantation Chant; II A Plantation Serenade ? ?; De Big Bethel Church ? ? ?; Time Goes by Turns; A Howdy Song ; ; ; Page; 1)1; 137; 14); 172; 177; ? 18 I
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philos« less