Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Jacqueline Jeremy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MILO WINTER [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1917 COPYRIGHT, 1851, 1853, 1909, AND 1911, BY THE CENTURY CO. COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY ESTHER LA ROSE HARRIS COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published October 1917_ PUBLISHERS' NOTE Nights With Uncle Remus is a story-book dearly loved by children. Besides that, it is an important contribution to the study of Afro-American folk-lore, and through many years of popularity it has carried a long and learned Introduction, of great interest to students but rather forbidding in aspect to youthful readers. In this new edition, which has been prepared especially for children, and illustrated in colors by an artist who knows how to please them as well as their elders, the Introduction has been omitted, but the stories and their charming setting have been left intact. _June, 1917_ CONTENTS I. MR. FOX AND MISS GOOSE 3 II. FOX CATCHES MR. HORSE 7 III. BRER RABBIT AND THE LITTLE GIRL 11 IV. BRER FOX COPIES BRER RABBIT 14 V. BRER RABBIT'S ASTONISHING PRANK 18 VI. BRER RABBIT SECURES A MANSION 22 VII. MR. LION HUNTS FOR MR. MAN 27 VIII. THE STORY OF THE PIGS 31 IX. MR. BENJAMIN RAM AND HIS WONDERFUL FIDDLE 35 X. BRER RABBIT'S RIDDLE 41 XI. HOW MR. ROOSTER LOST HIS DINNER 49 XII. BRER RABBIT BREAKS UP A PARTY 53 XIII. BRER FOX, BRER RABBIT, AND KING DEER'S DAUGHTER 58 XIV. BRER TERRAPIN DECEIVES BRER BUZZARD 62 XV. BRER FOX COVETS THE QUILLS 66 XVI. HOW BRER FOX FAILED TO GET HIS GRAPES 70 XVII. BRER FOX FIGURES AS AN INCENDIARY 75 XVIII. A DREAM AND A STORY 79 XIX. THE MOON IN THE MILL-POND 83 XX. BRER RABBIT TAKES SOME EXERCISE 89 XXI. WHY BRER BEAR HAS NO TAIL 97 XXII. HOW BRER RABBIT FRIGHTENED HIS NEIGHBORS 100 XXIII. MR. MAN HAS SOME MEAT 105 XXIV. HOW BRER RABBIT GOT THE MEAT 108 XXV. AFRICAN JACK 112 XXVI. WHY THE ALLIGATOR'S BACK IS ROUGH 119