A fairy tale about Fox and Brother Rabbit. Other stories from Uncle Remus

How many charming fascination in the "Tales of Uncle Remus"! It's not for nothing that the 16-year-old teenager Joel Harris (1848-1908) was heard by stories told by negroes in the kitchen to pass the time and have fun. He then worked as a "boy on parcels" on the plantation for shelter and bread, and in the evenings absorbed the pobasnyki of those black slaves, whom later in his tales called Uncle Remus and Mother Meadows.

How fairy tales entered the American literature

Ten years later, as a writer, Harris will start to travel and collect stories about the cunning Brother Rabbit and his family, about the insidious Fox, who can not catch and eat a very clever hare. But before that he would work as a compositor in a printing house, then as a journalist and finally as an editor in various newspapers. He will write essays, humoresques, serious political articles. Together with his family he will move to Atlanta and begin to reproduce what he listened to with pleasure in his youth. His stories will reprint all the newspapers. This folklore of the southern states is not printed in one book. His believable and admirable and affectionate animals will change attitudes toward children's books.

This will be literature, including for adults. And the numerous clones that will appear in English-speaking countries, such as Winnie the Pooh, and all the characters of cartoons and movies, are the merit of Joel Harris, whose "The Tale of Brother Rabbit and Brother Fox" has given impetus to the development of this direction. All collections of the writer are translated into many languages of the world. In Russia they were introduced to them in the thirties of the last century. They can be found on the shelves of public and home libraries. These editions are read to the very bottom.

What did my mother hear?

One evening my mother was looking for her son and accidentally looked into the window of a dilapidated hut. She saw the old black good-natured Uncle Remus, next to whom her baby comfortably settled and listened attentively, how cleverly, word by word, the story of this black old man folds. Mom and itself heard. It was a fairy tale about Fox and Rabbit. Mom heard Fox scurry after Rabbit and in every possible way managed to catch him. But Rabbit tried to escape from him. The ways of the animals suddenly met on the road. They stand opposite each other. The rabbit is plump, smooth, and so the Fox wants to eat, which comes up with such a cunning. He assures that Brother Bear advises them to make peace. Rabbit and answers: "Come to me, Brother Fox, tomorrow. We'll have lunch together. " The Fox, of course, agreed. And Rabbit, disappointed, rode home. Sadly told our hero to Mother Rabbit, that tomorrow by lunchtime it is necessary to wait for Brother Fox.

Early all rose in the house of Brother Rabbit and began to prepare to meet the red-haired guest. Dinner was made from delicious vegetables, and suddenly their rabbit runs and reports that a visitor is coming to them. But the Fox did not dare to go to them. He pretended to be ill, and through Brother Hedgehog sent an invitation to dinner for him. The next day the brother Rabbit came to the house of the fluffy, cunning master and began to ask if the hen was cooked for him. "Of course," agreed the Fox, and Brother Rabbit, on the pretext that the chicken was not put in dill, gave a dribble and quickly escaped. And did not manage to catch the Fox.

The other evening

Uncle Remus told the boy a story called "A Tale of Fox and Frogs." The old man funny prokvakal, as amphibians do, which seduced the red beast to dive into the pond behind the turtle. He looks at the Fox into the water, sees in it his own reflection, taken for his brother, and boldly ducks. Then he came to his senses and quickly, until the Tortoise Brother dragged him to the bottom, climbed ashore.

Another tale about Fox

Uncle Remus always has a lot of surprises in store. Here, for example, is a story about a resinous scarecrow. This is a fairy tale about Fox, who almost caught Brother Rabbit. The red beast of a little man was blinded from sticky resin, he put him on the road, and he hid himself and peeps out what will come of it. Runs Brother Rabbit and politely greets the scarecrow, but it is silent.

He was angry with the ignorant and decided to teach him a lesson: he struck the stuffed paw with his paw. She stuck. Then Rabbit became even more angry and began to beat the scarecrow not only with all the paws, but with his head. The rabbit Rabbit is completely bogged down in pitch. Then Brother Fox rushed out and let's scoff at the caught angry ears and say that they will have a nice lunch today. Suddenly, Uncle Remus was silent. The tale of the Fox and the resinous scarecrow ended. With anxiety, his little listener asks: "What next?" "Maybe Brother Bear came and saved the harmless Brother Rabbit?" - cunningly assumes Uncle Remus and sends the baby home.

Conclusion

Joel Harris wrote many fairy tales. In Russian translations, only "The Tale of the Lisov Family" was not found.

The rest are all there. These are tales about Sarych, Brother Wolf, little rabbits. A total of one hundred and eighty-five stories. This is 5 collections of fairy tales of Uncle Remus. All of them are alive and loved, although it has passed since the author's last lifetime publication for more than a hundred years.