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Title: Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: Bryan on March 26, 2004, 12:15:24 am

Did either Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn ever meet and hear Uncle Remus tell the story about Brer Rabbit?  

This isn't trivia, I don't know the answer..  

I realize there are two different authors here but seems like this happened in one of the stories I read but I can't recall for sure..

Bryan

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: Matt on March 26, 2004, 05:38:02 pm

Are you doing a book report, or am I missing something?

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: Charlemagne 8 on March 26, 2004, 07:05:02 pm

I'm not sure if they were FROM the same time or just ABOUT the same time. I've read Tom and Huck a few times and don't remember Brer Rabbit in any of it.

CVIII

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: Quisp on March 26, 2004, 09:32:18 pm

I think at one point Huckleberry Finn may have eaten rare rabbit.

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: Bryan on March 27, 2004, 10:27:39 am

Quote from: Matt on March 26, 2004, 05:38:02 pm

Are you doing a book report, or am I missing something?

No book report..  Just a conversation with my gf and I thought the two characters were together at some point..  Looks like I may be wrong..   :-[  I thought for certain someone here would back me up but that ain't happened yet...  

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: JustinChase on March 27, 2004, 10:58:55 am

Quote from: Bryan on March 27, 2004, 10:27:39 am

Looks like I may be wrong..   :-[  I thought for certain someone here would back me up but that ain't happened yet...  

Might be time to pay up :'(

Title: Re:Way OT - Brer Rabbit
Post by: JimH on March 27, 2004, 11:48:31 am

It rang a bell, but I don't think it was Uncle Remus.  

Huck and Jim get involved with a pair of charlatans named King and Duke, I think.  They put on a Shakespeare play in some small river town.  The town puts up with them for two nights, then comes loaded with dead cats, rotten eggs, tomatoes, etc. for the third performance.  

There's something I can't remember about getting tarred and feathered.

In Brer Rabbit, the story is about the "tar baby".  "Whatever you do, don't touch the tar baby."  Somebody (Brer Wolf) does and gets stuck to the tar baby.

I used to love those Brer Rabbit stories, but they're not much around anymore.  I think they may be thought to be a little racist, but I can't see it.