B.R.E.

Like the Reynard tales, those of Bre'r Rabbit are best inserted here and there throughout the year and not read in a mass.

But, ye don't know how daype ut is—an' th' rope moight bre'k!

Sur-re, they'll ketch up to us, befoor we git foive moile—we've got to bre'k thr-rail, an' they'll folly along in ut.

I'm jomp oop on ma feet ver' queek an' pull two, t'ree tam on de leetle rope, an' de las' tam I'm pull so hard she bre'k in two.

It nearly took me bre'th away t'inkin' uv it, an' I ain't got over it yet.