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Mon, 14 Jan 2008
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 Uncle Remus is about to descend on Seligor's Castle
The Tales of Uncle Remus were wrote by
Joel Chandler Harris and were the largest single
collection of Afro-American folktales ever
collected and published. Between 1896 and
1918 he published around 260 tales in eight
volumes, all of them black folktales.
I
absolutely adored the tales of Brer Rabbit and
my
most
Joel Chandler
favourite of all of them
was and still is Brer Rabbit and
the
Tar Harris
Baby. I used to get my mum or dad to read it to me
over and over again, then when my sisters were old
enough, I had them, read it as well, otherwise I
cried until they felt sorry
for me.
Yes, I know I was a naughty girl, but I
did so love the story. I hope you find it just as
good. It mightn't be exactly the same as the one
Uncle Remus wrote but it is how I remember it.
Brer
Rabbit and the Tar Baby
 Early one morning even before
Sister Moon had put on her dressing gown, Brer Fox
was up and moving around. He had a glint in his
eye, so you could tell straight away that he was up
to no good. On the table he had mixed up a big dish
of tar and then before your very eyes he had turned
the mass of tar into the shape of a baby, in fact a
Tar Baby. he sat back in his chair and
watched as Brer Sun, still yawning, crept up into
the sky above Brer Fox's Den.
A little time
later Brer Fox picked up his Tar Baby and made his
way down the road. This road just happened to be
the same road that Brer Rabbit,Posted 16:35
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