Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark

by Joel Chandler Harris

Kaze when it come his fat’nin time,

Here, Rattler! here!

De ’possum eat de muscadine,

Here, Rattler! here!

He eat till he kin skacely stan’,

Here, Rattler! here!

An’ den we bake him in de pan,

Here, Rattler! here!

“THE FIELD-HANDS WERE SINGING AS THEY PICKED THE OPENING COTTON.”