Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings
By Joel Chandler Harris (1880)
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris (1880). Unabridged Charlotte Mason living book edition for Form I Mythology, Folklore & Legends.
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Chapter 2: Dear Frost:
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I am expected to supply a preface for this new edition of my first book—to advance from behind the curtain, as it were, and make a fresh bow to the public that has dealt with Uncle Remus in so gentle and generous a fashion. For this event the lights are to be rekindled, and I am expected to respond in some formal way to an encore that marks the fifteenth anniversary of the book. There have been other editions—how many I do not remember—but this is to be an entirely new one, except as to the matter: new type, new pictures, and new binding.
But, as frequently happens on such occasions, I am at a loss for a word. I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children—some young and fresh, and some wearing the friendly marks of age, but all children at heart—and not an unfriendly face among them. And out of the confusion, and while I am trying hard to speak the right word, I seem to hear a voice lifted above the rest, saying "You have made some of us happy." And so I feel my heart fluttering and my lips trembling, and I have to how silently and him away, and hurry back into the obscurity that fits me best.
Phantoms! Children of dreams! True, my dear Frost; but if you could see the thousands of letters that have come to me from far and near, and all fresh from the hearts and hands of children, and from men and women who have not forgotten how to be children, you would not wonder at the dream. And such a dream can do no harm. Insubstantial though it may be, I would not at this hour exchange it for all the fame won by my mightier brethren of the pen—whom I most humbly salute.
Measured by the material developments that have compressed years of experience into the space of a day, thus increasing the possibilities of life, if not its beauty, fifteen years constitute the old age of a book. Such a survival might almost be said to be due to a tiny sluice of green sap under the gray bark. where it lies in the matter of this book, or what its source if, indeed, it be really there—is more of a mystery to my middle age than it was to my prime.
But it would be no mystery at all if this new edition were to be more popular than the old one. Do you know why? Because you have taken it under your hand and made it yours. Because you have breathed the breath of life into these amiable brethren of wood and field. Because, by a stroke here and a touch there, you have conveyed into their quaint antics the illumination of your own inimitable humor, which is as true to our sun and soil as it is to the spirit and essence of the matter set forth.
The book was mine, but now you have made it yours, both sap and pith. Take it, therefore, my dear Frost, and believe me, faithfully yours,
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Table of Contents
70 ChaptersEvery chapter below is pre-indexed for oral narration and easy 1-click scheduling into your weekly Charlotte Mason lesson plan.
Chapter 2: Dear Frost:
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Chapter 3: Introduction
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Chapter 4: J. C. H
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Chapter 5: Uncle Remus Initiates The Little Boy
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Chapter 6: The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
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Chapter 7: Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace
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Chapter 8: How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox
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Chapter 9: The Story Of The Deluge And How It Came About
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Chapter 10: r. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox
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Chapter 11: r. Fox Is Again Victimized
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Chapter 12: r. Fox Is "Outdone" By Mr. Buzzard
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Chapter 13: iss Cow Falls A Victim To Mr. Rabbit
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Chapter 14: r. Terrapin Appears Upon The Scene
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Chapter 15: r. Wolf Makes A Failure
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Chapter 16: r. Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin
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Chapter 17: The Awful Fate Of Mr. Wolf
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Chapter 18: r. Fox And The Deceitful Frogs
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Chapter 19: r. Fox Goes A-Hunting, But Mr. Rabbit Bags The Game
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Chapter 20: Old Mr. Rabbit, He's A Good Fisherman
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Chapter 21: r. Rabbit Nibbles Up The Butter
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Chapter 22: r. Rabbit Finds His Match At Last
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Chapter 23: The Fate Of Mr. Jack Sparrow
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Chapter 24: How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat
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Chapter 25: r. Rabbit Meets His Match Again
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Chapter 26: A Story About The Little Rabbits
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Chapter 27: r. Rabbit And Mr. Bear
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Chapter 28: r. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog
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Chapter 29: How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Fine Bushy Tail
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Chapter 30: r. Terrapin Shows His Strength
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Chapter 31: Why Mr. Possum Has No Hair On His Tail
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Chapter 32: The End Of Mr. Bear
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Chapter 33: r. Fox Gets Into Serious Business
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Chapter 34: How Mr. Rabbit Succeeded In Raising A Dust
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Chapter 35: A Plantation Witch
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Chapter 36: "Jacky-My-Lantern" *1
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Chapter 37: Why The Negro Is Black
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Chapter 38: The Sad Fate Of Mr. Fox
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Chapter 39: Plantation Proverbs
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Chapter 40: Revival Hymn
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Chapter 41: amp-Meeting Song *
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Chapter 42: orn-Shucking Song
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Chapter 43: The Plough-Hands' Song (Jasper County—1860.)
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Chapter 44: hristmas Play-Song (Myrick Place, Putnam County 1858.)
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Chapter 45: Plantation Play-Song (Putnam County—1856.)
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Chapter 46: 1. A Plantation Chant
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Chapter 47: 2.A Plantation Serenade
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Chapter 48: The Big Bethel Church
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Chapter 49: Time Goes By Turns
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Chapter 50: A Story Of The War
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Chapter 51: Jeems Rober'Son's Last Illness
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Chapter 52: Uncle Remus's Church Experience
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Chapter 53: Uncle Remus And The Savannah Darkey
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Chapter 54: Turnip Salad As A Text
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Chapter 55: A Confession
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Chapter 56: Uncle Remus With The Toothache
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Chapter 57: The Phonograph
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Chapter 58: Race Improvement
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Chapter 59: n The Role Of A Tartar
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Chapter 60: A Case Of Measles
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Chapter 61: The Emigrants
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Chapter 62: UNCLE Remus met a police officer recently
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Chapter 63: His Practical View Of Things
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Chapter 64: That Deceitful Jug
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Chapter 65: The Florida Watermelon
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Chapter 66: Uncle Remus Preaches To A Convert
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Chapter 67: As To Education
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Chapter 68: A Temperance Reformer
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Chapter 69: As A Weather Prophet
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Chapter 70: The Old Man's Troubles
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Chapter 71: The Fourth Of July
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