Legend

Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef

by Florence M. Cronise

Animal stories from Sierra Leone, gathered by Florence Cronise and Henry Ward and published in 1903. Cunnie Rabbit is small and clever, and Mr Spider greedy and full of tricks. Readers who know Brer Rabbit will recognise some of the plots, which travelled to America with enslaved Africans.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 50 min

Where to find it

The African Reading Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #48828. In the public domain in the United States.