--- title: Opening, part 11 — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 11, «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: XLVII. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/11/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, to…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/) / Opening, part 11 # Opening, part 11 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/11/) **2** Buh Wolf house buil on de groun senker hog pen.[82](../../82/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh mek wid pole.[83](../../83/ "tree and pragmatics") Him bin tink say him got Buh Rabbit safe, an so eh keep on play eh fiddle an sing: “Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.[84](../../84/ "tree and pragmatics") Tenk God, rain done sen meat een me house.”[85](../../85/ "tree and pragmatics") Wile Buh Wolf duh mek ehself saterfy say him hab Buh Rabbit an gwine eat um soon es de rain done ober, Buh Rabbit duh grabble, grabble, grabble onder de bottom er de pole, tel eh mek hole big nough, an den eh slip out, onbeknowinst teh Buh Wolf, an hop roun teh de front do, an eh holler teh Buh Wolf: “You duh sing an der play, ‘Tenk God, rain done sen meat een you house,’ but you yent eat um yet, an you yent gwine eat um.”[86](../../86/ "tree and pragmatics") Wid dat eh leff right befo Buh Wolf face.[87](../../87/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf rale disappint.[88](../../88/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh loss eh dinner.[89](../../89/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh gone an eh heng up eh fiddle, an eh say teh ehself: “Me tought sho me bin hab um, but Rabbit beat my time.”[90](../../90/ "tree and pragmatics") LII.[91](../../91/ "tree and pragmatics") BUH ALLIGATUH, BUH RABBIT, AN BUH WOLF.[92](../../92/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit, him bin er tief Buh Alligatuh agg.[93](../../93/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Alligatuh ketch um topper eh nes.[94](../../94/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh graff um an eh pit um een one crocus bag, an eh tie up de een er de bag tight, an eh heng um on one tree lim, an eh gone home fuh git eh lash fuh lick Buh Rabbit.[95](../../95/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit dat skaid eh yeye big moner saucer.[96](../../96/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh duh trimble een de bag, an duh peep trough de crack een de crocus fuh notus wuh gwine happne.[97](../../97/ "tree and pragmatics") Bimeby eh see Buh Wolf duh ramble dat way.[98](../../98/ "tree and pragmatics") Soon es Buh Wolf come anigh um, Buh Rabbit biggin fuh sing say him gwine teh Hebben, way him will hab nuttne fuh do cept joy ehself; way him will hab no corn fuh grine, no tetter fuh dig, no cotton fuh pick, no rice fuh hoe, an no chillun fuh mine.[99](../../99/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit mek tense luk him so happy case de Lord dist er commin fuh tek um right up eenter de element.[100](../../100/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf stop.[101](../../101/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh listne teh Buh Rabbit.[102](../../102/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh yeddy close, an den eh say: “Buh Rabbit, enty dat duh you woice?”[103](../../103/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Yes, Budder, dis duh me.”[104](../../104/ "tree and pragmatics") Den Buh Wolf ax um wuh eh duh do een dat crocus bag.[105](../../105/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit tell um say him dist fix ehself dat er way so de Lord kin fine um handy fuh tek um right up eenter Hebben; an den eh say: “Good-bye, Buh Wolf, I leff all me trial behine; you no gwine see me no mo; me gwine leff right off fuh Hebben.”[106](../../106/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf now, him yent hab no better sense den fuh bleebe wuh Buh Rabbit duh talk; an eh bague Buh Rabbit fuh leh him jine um an go long um.[107](../../107/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit, him mek answer: “Me Budder, me glad fuh bleege you, but de good Lord tell me say only one at er time kin enter Hebben.[108](../../108/ "tree and pragmatics") Two an two cant go day.”[109](../../109/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf bague.[110](../../110/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh bague.[111](../../111/ "tree and pragmatics") At lenk Buh Rabbit mek tense say eh gie way caze Buh Wolf bague um so bad, an eh say: “Well, Budder, you seem so anxious me gwine leh you tek me chance dis time, an me will haffer wait topper de Lord tel narruh tun.”[112](../../112/ "tree and pragmatics") Wid dat eh tell Buh Wolf fuh loose de bag offer de tree lim, an ontie um.[113](../../113/ "tree and pragmatics") Arter Buh Wolf done do dis, Buh Rabbit git out, an Buh Wolf tek eh place een de bag.[114](../../114/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit tie up de mout er de bag berry tight, an heng um gen on de tree lim.[115](../../115/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf, lucker fool, duh set eenside duh spec fuh rise ter Hebben.[116](../../116/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Rabbit now, eh so glad eh free, eh hop off one side an hide ehself een one gall-berry ticket, way nobody kin shum, an cock eh yez fuh notus wuh gwine happne.[117](../../117/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh know say big trouble gwine come topper Buh Wolf.[118](../../118/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh yent bin berry long wen yuh come Buh Alligatuh duh tote er keen black lash.[119](../../119/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh gone right up ter de bag, an eh gen um er nasty cut.[120](../../120/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh haul back an eh gen de bag anurrer whaling ub er lick.[121](../../121/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh no bin know say Buh Rabbit bin git out, an dat Buh Wolf bin eenside.[122](../../122/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf couldnt mek out wuh bin gwine on.[123](../../123/ "tree and pragmatics") De lick hot um so bad eh holler out: “Wudder dat?[124](../../124/ "tree and pragmatics") Who duh dat?[125](../../125/ "tree and pragmatics") Wuh hoona duh do long me?[126](../../126/ "tree and pragmatics") Lemme lone.”[127](../../127/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Alligatuh so bex eh yent yeddy say eh bin Buh Wolf woice, an eh keep duh pile on de lick tell eh tare de crocus an cut de bag down.[128](../../128/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Wolf all lick up so eh casely kin walk.[129](../../129/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen eh scuffle outer de bag, Buh Alligatuh fine out fuh de fus time say eh binner whale up Buh Wolf, steader Buh Rabbit wuh bin tief eh agg.[130](../../130/ "tree and pragmatics") Den Buh Alligatuh ax Buh Wolf pardon, an mek um tell um huccum Buh Rabbit bin fool um an git um fuh tek eh place een de bag.[131](../../131/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Alligatuh bex an sorry all two: eh bex caze Buh Rabbit play dat trick an git way; eh sorry caze Buh Wolf beat up so sewere.[132](../../132/ "tree and pragmatics") All dis time Buh Rabbit duh squat een de bush, way eh kin see an yeddy ebry ting, duh half kill ehself wid laugh.[133](../../133/ "tree and pragmatics") All de sorry wuh Buh Alligatuh bin sorry fuh Buh Wolf yent bin done um no good.[134](../../134/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh bin bruise up so bad eh haffer tek eh bed fuh mona two week, an all dat time Buh Wolf fambly mose dead long hongry.[135](../../135/ "tree and pragmatics") Buh Alligatuh an Buh Wolf all two mek plan fuh ketch Buh Rabbit, but dem nebber did obertek um.[136](../../136/ "tree and pragmatics") No matter wuh de trouble, Buh Rabbit always hab sense nough fuh clear ehself.[137](../../137/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh yent hab dem long yez an big yeye fuh nuttne.[138](../../138/ "tree and pragmatics") LIII.[139](../../139/ "tree and pragmatics") DE DYIN BULL-FROG.[140](../../140/ "tree and pragmatics") One time er ole Bull-Frog bin berry sick an spectin fuh dead.[141](../../141/ "tree and pragmatics") All eh fren een de pon collec roun um an eh fambly, fuh nuss um an tek dem las look at um.[142](../../142/ "tree and pragmatics") Dat ole Frog bin hab er noung wife an heap er leely chillun.[143](../../143/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh berry trouble een eh breas bout who gwine mine eh fambly arter eh gone.[144](../../144/ "tree and pragmatics") Wen eh woice biggin fuh fail um, an dist befo eh dead, eh say: “Me fren, who gwine tek me wife wen de breaf leff dis yer body?”[145](../../145/ "tree and pragmatics") Eh fren all holler out at de top er dem woice: “Me me.[146](../../146/ "tree and pragmatics") Me me.[147](../../147/ "tree and pragmatics") Me me.”[148](../../148/ "tree and pragmatics") Den eh quire: “Who er you gwine mine me leely chillun?”[149](../../149/ "tree and pragmatics") Fuh some time eh yent yeddy no answer; an den de answer come back ter um one by one from all ober de pon, an een er deep woice: “Yent der me.[150](../../150/ "tree and pragmatics") Yent der me.[151](../../151/ "tree and pragmatics") Yent der me.”[152](../../152/ "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/11/) **2** - ← previous: [page 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/11/) - next →: [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/12/) - ↑ back to [Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg76586/)