"Brer Fox, he lay low."

"Brer Rabbit keep on axin' 'im, en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid h…"

"'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' se…"

"Ez soshubble ez a baskit er kittens."

"Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired."

"Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug."

"Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum."

"Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?"

"I seem to see before me the smiling faces of thousands of children some young and fresh and some wearing the friendly…"

"Tater-vine growin’ w’ile you sleep."