Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harris
Joel Chandler Harriswas 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 the majority of his adult life in Atlanta working as an associate editor at the Atlanta Constitution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 December 1848
CountryUnited States of America
prime senility
I am in the prime of my senility.
patches briars please
Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!
foxes patches fling
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.