Tarrypin is a large bipedal turtle residing in MidPass. In the folktales, Old Man Tarrypin lived in a pond near the house of Brer Rabbit who made friends with him. They liked playing tricks on Brer Fox who decided to get even with Tarrypin as he couldn't catch Brer Rabbit.

Brother Fox decided to drown Old Man Tarrypin instead. He tucked the turtle under his arm and carried him down to the springhouse by the pond. “Please, oh please don’t drown me,” Old Man Tarrypin begged. “I ain’t making no promises,” Brother Fox retorted. “You’ve played too many tricks on me, Brother Tarrypin.”

Here you will meet Old Man Tarrypin, the turtle inhabitant of Brer Rabbit's world. The word "terrapin" is, like opossum, another Native American word, also Algonquian (Abenaki turepe, Delaware tolpew). This story is a follow-up to an earlier encounter when Brer Rabbit and Brer Turtle humiliated Brer Fox when they were visiting at the house of ...

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Immediately Old Man Tarrypin splashed down and down into the water and thumped onto the mud on the bottom, kerplicky-splat. That's when Brer Fox remembered that Old Man Tarrypin lived in the pond, and there was never any fear of him drowning, nohow!

2015年11月17日 · Brer Fox Catches Old Man Tarrypin A Georgia Folktale retold by S.E. SchlosserWell now, Brer Rabbit had made friends with Old Man Tarrypin, a big turtle that lived in the pond nearhis house

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Brother Fox Catches Old Man Tarrypin Well now, Brother Rabbit had made friends with Old Man Tarrypin, a big turtle that lived in the pond near his house. Brother Rabbit and Old Man Tarrypin liked to pull tricks on Brother Fox, and that rascally fellow got pretty mad about it.

Fox Tackles Old Man Tarrypin. Text Source: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris. Online at Project Gutenberg. I have removed the frame material and standardized the spelling; click here for the original spelling plus all notes to the story. One day Brer Fox strike up with Brer Terrapin right in the middle of the big road.

“One day,” said Uncle Remus, sharpening his knife on the palm of his hand—“one day Brer Fox strike up wid Brer Tarrypin right in de middle er de big road.