Iced Gingerbread (Uncle Remus style)

Chapter 7

Sis Patty lead Brer Burt ter de cage. "How about you open your gift?"

Brer Burt uncova de cage, but when he did, de robin was gone.

"Holy infinite void of emptiness! You got me a cage" he say.

"No! There was a robin in there to make it less empty. That was your present" say Sis Patty.

"Oh. Well, thank you, Patty" sez Brer Burt sezee. "But I don't think I'd be able to keep track of a bird."

Sis Patty sigh. "Aw, gee. I should have gone with that picture frame I was making you."

"Lame!" snap Brer Fox.

"I would have loved that. I was making a perfume for you" say Brer Burt.

"Lamer!" snap Brer Fox.

"But Brer Fox said you liked interpretive dance because you went to all of his shows" say Brer Burt.

"I only went because Jeremy always bought me a hotdog afterwards" say Sis Patty.

"Hey!" say Brer Fox.

Sis Patty look at her friend wid a kind face. "Burty... seeing how much work you put into that poem and dance shows just how much you care about me. And that makes it a really great present. So thank you."

Brer Burt take her hand. "And you chasing around a less than cautious robin means a lot to me. Thank you."

De two buddies hugged. 

"Well, I guess we learned that sometimes the gift isn't about the actual present" say Sis Patty.

"And that we should never listen to Brer Fox" say Brer Burt.

"I'm right here!" snap Brer Fox.

Dat night, Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear an' Chad & Jeremy went back ter Santy's cabin, only ter find a fence blockin' dare way.

"Oh dear! Santa put up an electrified fence" say Brer Chad.

"Don't worry. I have a plan" sez Brer Jeremy sezee. "We just need to climb that tree, shimmy across that branch, then swing ourselves over the barbed wire."

"Or we could jes' unplug de fence an' open it" say Brer Rabbit.

Den he do jes' dat. 

"Okay, if you want to take the theatricality out of it" say Brer Jeremy.

Den day go throo de fence an' stop outside de daw.

"Now we just have to climb onto the roof and slither down the chimney while holding our breath. Then we won't inhale anything dangerous" say Brer Jeremy.

"Or we could use de key unda his 'not welcome' mat" say Brer Bear.