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THE FATE OP MR. JACK SPARROW. 97sorter 'track Brer Fox 'tenshun, en he look at detattlin' bird, en de bird he keep on callin' :" 'I got sump'n fer ter tell you, Brer Fox.'" 'Git on my tail, little Jack Sparrer,'sez BrerFox, sezee, ' kaze I'm de'f in one year, en I can't hearout'n de udder. Git on my tail,' sezee." Den de little bird he up'n hop on Brer Fox's tail." 'Git on my back, little Jack Sparrer, kaze I'mde'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.'" Den de little bird hopon his back." 'Hop on my head, little Jack Sparrer,kaze I'mde'f in bofe years.'"Up hop de little bird." 'Hop on my toof, little Jack Sparrer,de'f in one year en I can't hear out'n de udder.'den"kaze I'm" De tattlin' little bird hop on Brer Fox's toof, enHere Uncle Kemus paused, opened wide his mouthand closed it again in a waystory. *that told the whole* An Atlanta friend heard this story in Florida, but an alligatorwas substituted for the fox, and a little boy for the rabbit.There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes totell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; andthere may be other versions. I have adhered to the middleGeorgia version, which is characteristic enough. It may be well tostate that there are different versions of all the stories the shrewdnarrators of the mythology of the old plantation adapting themselveswith ready tact to the years, tastes, and expectations of theirjuvenile audiences.16