Sentence:  <WSD>BRER RABBIT</WSD> came pacing down the road, lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity, just as sassy as a jaybird. And then he saw Chester the dog, who might just as well have been Brer Fox. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any specific rabbit; (used to personify a rabbit in a story)