20. My Favorite Tall Tale

My favorite tall tale out of all the ones I have ever heard has got to be Brier Rabbit and the Tar Baby. I am not sure why I like it so much, it may be because it was the only tall tale that I ever heard that was not about some macho guy? I do not know. But either way, Brier Rabbit and the Tar Baby was the best! In case you do not know what it is about, basically it is this rabbit, and he is hanging out in the forest or wherever rabbits chill out at. All of a sudden this fox sees the rabbit and decided he wanted to eat the rabbit. So, the fox got this ingenius idea to make a baby out of tar to capture the rabbit. (Why a rabbit would be attracted to a baby figure I have no idea) but, it worked, and the rabbit got stuck to this baby shaped mound of tar. Then when the fox took it back to his cave or whatever, he took the rabbit and was deciding how to go about eating him. The rabbit said something like, "Do whatever you want to me, just please do not throw me into the briers." Or something along those lines. And the rabbit just kept pleading with the fox not to throw him in the brier patch. Think about this, if you have complete control over someone and they ask you NOT to do something, what do you usually want to do? Whatever they are asking you not to do right? Of course. So, needless to say, the fox was like, "Oh, the rabbit does not want me to throw him in the briers, so naturally I will!" And when he did, the rabbit escaped because lo and behold, that where he was born and raised...in the briers. So I am not sure what the moral of this story is, but I know that if I am ever in the hands of a fox waiting to eat me, I will most definately plead for him to not throw me in the briers because hey, a few pokes here and there is better than being eaten right??