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Joel Chandler Harris Biography

Joel Chandler Harris

Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1848 – July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he served as an apprentice on a plantation during his teenage years. He spent most of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution.

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Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Fine, Hongry, Rooster, Roosters, Wum

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Fattening, Hogs, Luck, Want, Watch, Watches

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Dey, Folks, Git, Ole, Palsy, Specks

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

Git, Jug, Jugs, Loose, Loud, Talks

People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.

Ability, Lacking, Long, Long Ago, People, Writing

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

Git, Lazy, Stummucks, Tired

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Bird, Nes, Rob

I am in the prime of my senility.

Prime, Senility

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.

Good, Paper, Self, Writing

I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

Fling, Foxes, Keer, Patches, Roas

Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

Book, Couple, Georgian, Turned, Works, Writing

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

Briars, Patch, Patches, Please, Throw