TOLD BY UNCLE REMUS New Stories of the Old Plantation By Joel Chandler Harris CONTENTS PAGE The Reason Why 3 I Why Mr. Cricket has Elbows on his Legs 19 II How Wiley Wolf Rode in the Bag 37 III Brother Rabbit's Laughing-Place 53 IV Brother Rabbit and the Chickens 74 V Little Mister Cricket and the Other Creatures 87 VI When Brother Rabbit was King 101 VII How Old Craney-Crow Lost his Head 126 VIII Brother Fox Follows the Fashion 141 IX Why the Turkey-Buzzard is Bald-Headed 153 X Brother Deer an' King Sun's Daughter 172 XI Brother Rabbit's Cradle 188 XII Brother Rabbit and Brother Bull-Frog 205 XIII Why Mr. Dog is Tame 230 XIV Brother Rabbit and the Gizzard Eater 243 XV Brother Rabbit and Miss Nancy 266 XVI The Hard-Headed Woman 276 LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS "IS ANYBODY EVER HEAR DE BEAT ER DAT?" Frontispiece FACING PAGE "So he holler down thoo de crack" 34 "'Does you call dis good luck?'" 36 "Dey sot dar . talkin' 'bout ol' times" 44 "'Git 'im use ter de bag'" 48 "'Den you come on home; yo' mammy want you'" 50 "Went off home des ez gayly ez a colt in a barley patch" 80 "'Brer Rabbit, whar you gwine?'" 82 "Brer Fox, say, 'Gents, . I wanter tell you dat I'm de swiffes' one in dis bunch'" 92 "Mr. Elephant went splungin' thoo de woods same ez a harrycane" 96 "So his ol' 'oman went out ter de woodpile an' got de ax" 150 "She dremp dat Brer Rabbit wuz laughin' at 'er" 152 "Brer Deer went on fer ter tell Brer Rabbit" 180 "De beau got ter flingin' his sass roun' Brer Rabbit" 272 "De gal, she cry some, but dey went off an' got married" 274 "Den he shuck a gourd-vine over de pot" 286 "De ax, it clum back on top er de woodpile an' fell off on t'er side" 290 "Den she lit out atter de pot like she was runnin' a foot-race" 292 MINGO And Other Sketches In Black And White By Joel Chandler Harris "UNCLE REMUS" CONTENTS MINGO: A SKETCH OF LIFE IN MIDDLE GEORGIA AT TEAGUE POTEET'S: A SKETCH OF THE HOG MOUNTAIN RANGE A PIECE OF LAND BLUE DAVE