[20] An allusion to the primitive mode of cleaning hogs by heating rocks, and placing them in a barrel or tank of water.
[21] This word "lonesome," as used by the negroes, is the equivalent of "thrilling," "romantic," etc., and in that sense is very expressive.
[22] An inquiry after his health. Another form is: "How does yo' corporosity seem ter segashuate?"
[23] Exercise himself.
[24] Tear the earth.
[25] Acquaintance.
[26] Sissy Ann.
[27] Disease.
[28] If, as some ethnologists claim, the animal myths are relics of zoötheism, there can scarcely be a doubt that the practice here described by Uncle Remus is the survival of some sort of obeisance or genuflexion by which the negroes recognized the presence of the Rabbit, the great central figure and wonder-worker of African mythology.
[29] Never mind.