[60] Allowance; ration.
[61] Based on a characteristic negro saying. For instance: "Where's Jim?" "You can't keep up wid dat nigger. Des let night come, en he's runnin' fum hen-roost to river-bank." In other words, stealing chickens and robbing fish baskets.
[62] Hither and yon.
[63] As if.
[64] No doubt this means that Brother Rabbit's proposition was pleasant and plausible.
[65] Wild; fierce; dangerous; courageous. The accent is on the second syllable, ser-vi-gous; or, ser-vi-gus, and the g is hard. Aunt Tempy would have said "vigrous."
[66] A plantation saying. It means if hard times get harder. A briefer form is "w'en shove 'come push"—when the worst comes to the worst.
[67] That is to say, put him on the block, and sell him.
[68] Victuals.
[69] That is, could do no more than half the work of a man.