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154 LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION.no mo'n got ter de place fo'up jump de old rabbit right'mong um, en atter runnin' 'roun' a. time or two, sheskip right up ter Mars Jeems, en Mars Jeems, he desput de gun-bairl right on 'er en lammed aloose. Hittored up de groun' all 'roun', en de dogs, dey rush up,but dey wa'n't no rabbit dar ;but bimeby Mars Jeems,he seed de dogs tuckin' der tails 'tween der legs, en helook up, en dar wuz de rabbit caperin' 'roun' on a toomstone,en wid dat Mars Jeems say he sorter feel like detime done come w'en yo' gran' ma was 'speck tin' un himhome, en he call off de dogs en put out.ha'nts.But dem wuzWitches is deze yer kinder fokes wat kin drapder body en change inter a cat en a wolf en all kindercreeturs."" Papa says there ain't any witches," the little boyinterrupted." Mars John ain't live long ez I is,"said UncleRemus, by way of comment. " He ain't bin broozin''roun' all hours er de night en day.I know'd a niggerw'ich his brer wuz a witch, kaze he up'n tole me howhe tuck'n kyo'd 'im ;en he kyo'd 'im good, mon.""How was that " ?inquired the little boy." Hit seem like," continued Uncle Kemus, " datwitch fokes is got a slit in de back er de neck, en w'endey wanter change derse'f, dey des pullder head same ez if 'twuz a shut, en dar deyis."de hide over"Do they get out of their skins ? " asked the littleboy, in an awed tone.