The Calamus Root
- Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox constantly quarrel with Rabbit Evading Fox
- Fox tells Rabbit one day that Bear thinks that they don't get along well so Rabbit invites Fox to dinner to squash that rumor
- Fox doesn't show but Rabbit sees him lurking outside. Fox then calls out sick the next day and asks Rabbit to join him for dinner.
- Rabbit joins but sees no food and asks if they are having chicken and Fox says yes. Rabbit says okay but I only eat it with Calamus Root so let me find some and runs out the door knowing Fox planned to eat him.
- He told Fox he put the root on the stump and while Fox was distracted assuming he would be by the stump, Rabbit got away
The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
- the day after Calamus Root story takes place, Fox gets tar and turpentine and makes a tar child and places it in the road.
- Briar Rabbit greets it and asks what is wrong but getting no response he goes to grab it and take it with him to teach it manners and gets stuck
- Rabbit then argues with it fruitlessly and keeps threatening to physically discipline it and gets more and more appendages stuck.
- Fox watches this hidden until Rabbit is stuck then tells him he will have to join him for dinner now and this time he has calamus root
Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace
- Racoon and Possum were hanging out then went on a walk and saw Dog they discussed what they would do when he approached
- Raccoon said he would fight and Possum said he would be behind him
- sure enough Dog charged and Possum played dead and Raccoon fought him off
- Raccoon left and would not speak to Possum until Possum finally asked why and Raccoon said it was because he was a coward
- Possum explained that he is super ticklish and knew that in a quarell with Dog he would be tickled and would be useless so he played dead instead knowing Raccoon could handle it. Not because he was scared but because he was smart
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Smart For Mr. Fox
- Fox intends to cook Rabbit after being stuck in the Tar baby
- he says he is always running around and getting in everyones business
- Rabbit replies with whatever Fox proposes with "as long as you dont throw me in the Brer patch"
- Fox decides not to build a fire bc it is too much work, He decides to hang Rabbit but he has no string, then he decides to drown him but there is not deep enouogh water, then he decides to skin him but there is no knife
- finally he chucks Rabbit into the brer patch thinking that will do him most harm since he begged not to be thrown there.
- Rabbit frees himself and runs of saying "born and bred in a brer patch"
Mr. Fox is Outdone by Mr. Buzzard
- so while Rabbit was hiding in a hollow Buzzard agreed to help Fox and watch the hollow
- well Rabbit got away under his watch and when Fox came back Buzzard lied and said Rabbit was in there napping and played along while Fox tried to cut down the tree
- Fox caught Buzzard laughing so he got him to look in the hollow and grabbed his neck and held him down and told him how he caught him even though he kept denying it.
- Fox told him he knew it was a lie bc he saw rabbit fur from the other direction
- Buzzard then begs for his life and fox threatens to burn him in fire but he says he will just fly off
- so Fox starts beating him against the ground until he has almost no feathers and then flies off
Mr. Wolf Makes a Failure
- Fox's Failure with Rabbit is talk of the town, Wolf sees him moping and after greeting he asks what is wrong
- Fox says nothing is wrong but Wolf knew otherwise and said he had a plan
- the must trick Rabbit into Fox's house. Fox is going to play dead while Wolf tells Rabbit
- Rabbit goes to check it out but is suspicious when no one is there and talks to himself figuring out a way to find out if Fox is dead
- he says dead people lift their legs and yell wahoo when people visit them
- Fox does this so that is how Rabbit knows he is not dead and he runs away
Mr. Fox Tackles Oldman Terrypin
- So in a previous run in turtle and rabbit bested fox
- turtle is hanging out in pain when fox greets him super nice and ask what is wrong with turtle's eyes. Turtle explains that fox doesnt know what suffering is
- Fox asks again what happened and this time turtle tells him that a man set a field on fire when he was in it and he just waited it our and said it scorched his back and smoke got his eyes.
- Fox says it got your tail too and turtle says no it didnt and shows him. Fox grabs him and while turtle pleads for his life he says not to burn him because he is used to it
- so fox goes and throws him in a spring and turtle tells him repeatedly to let go of the root and catch him instead and Fox keeps telling him he is holding turtle not the root. he finally lets go and turtle sinks to the bottom and is right at home
The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf
- wolf was always getting in everyones business and got tied up with Mr. Fox and his going after Rabbit
- Rabbits house was raided and he lost a child, he built a house out of straw and that got raided, then pine tops, again raided, then a bark house, same thing. each time a child was taken
- finally rabbit got pissed and got some carpenters to build him a true house with solid foundation and he finally had peace, he also had a hole in the cellar for his kids to hide
- One day wolf comes in covered in mud saying the dogs were after him and rabbit needs to hide him
- he tells wolf to hide in the chest and after a long while wolf asks if the dogs are gone and rabbit lies and says he hears one sniffing around
- so rabbit goes to boil tea in a kettle and wolf asks why and rabbit says, I am making some tea for you. Then he drills holes in the chest, wolf asks why, rabbit says so you can breathe.
- rabbit makes a fire for the tea wolf asks why, rabbit says to keep you warm
- then rabbit gets his kids and wolf ask what he is doing, rabbit says he got his kids and told them what a nice man wolf is while the kids hold back laughter
- rabbit then starts pouring tea in the holes, wolf asks what that noise is, rabbit says the wind
- as burning tea hits his skin wolf asks what that is, rabbit says flees and to turn over and see if that helps, wolf thinks they are biting really hard and turns over while rabbit pours more tea and thinks more flees are biting him. then the tea does the job and drowns/burns wolf
- everyone celebrates and rabbit hangs his hide up
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| Brer Fox, Rabbit, and Bear at Disney World's Splash Mountain ride Represented as they were in the Disney film Song of the South. Source |
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