Joel Chandler Harris,
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings…
(1886)
“ No ’simmons never drap. Den Miss Cow back off little fudder, she did, en hi’st her tail on ’er back, en come agin de tree, kerblam! en she come so fas’, en she come so hard, twel one ’er her horns went spang thoo de tree, en dar she wuz. She can’t go forerds, en she can’t go backerds. Dis zackly w’at Brer Rabbit waitin’ fer, en he no sooner seed ole Miss Cow all fas’en’d up dan he jump up, he did, en cut de pidjin-wing.“‘Come he’p me out, Brer Rabbit,’ sez Miss Cow, sez she.“‘I can’t clime, Sis Cow,’ sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, ‘but I’ll run’n tell Brer Bull,’ sezee ”
