\'"DE animils en de creeturs," said Uncle Remus, shaking his coffee around in the bottom of his tin-cup, in order to gather up all the sugar, \'dey kep\' on gittin\' mo\' en mo\' familious wid wunner nudder, twel bimeby, \'twan\'t long \'fo\' Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum got ter sorter bunchin\' der perwishuns tergedder in de same shanty. Atter w\'ile de roof sorter \'gun ter leak, en one day Brer Rabbit, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, \'semble fer ter see ef dey can\'t kinder patch her up. Dey had a big day\'s work in front un um, en dey fotch der dinne............