Then they started hoeing at the crack of dawn.
Inspired by: South Carolina Folk Tales. Bulletin of University of South Carolina (a WPA project).
Notes: This story is "De Buttah Tree." The book provides detailed comparative notes. I liked the names in this one! Another version reported in this book has the names are Skim-de-Top, One-Quarter-Gone, Half-Gone, Three-Quarter-Gone, Skim-de-Bottom. In the second part of the story, Wolf and Rabbit both accuse each other of eating the butter: Who Ate the Butter?
About an hour later, Rabbit said, "I hear my wife calling." He ran off, and secretly ate some of the butter.
"What did she want?" Wolf asked when Rabbit came back.
"She had a baby. We named him Jes' Start."
Mid-morning, Rabbit ran off again. Baby's name was Mos' Ha'f.
Again at noon: Mos' Gone.
And mid-afternoon: All Gone.
Then, when they went to eat dinner, they found the butter was indeed all gone.
Inspired by: South Carolina Folk Tales. Bulletin of University of South Carolina (a WPA project).
Notes: This story is "De Buttah Tree." The book provides detailed comparative notes. I liked the names in this one! Another version reported in this book has the names are Skim-de-Top, One-Quarter-Gone, Half-Gone, Three-Quarter-Gone, Skim-de-Bottom. In the second part of the story, Wolf and Rabbit both accuse each other of eating the butter: Who Ate the Butter?
Haha well done Rabbit for getting the butter and leaving the idiotic wolf with none!
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