This variant is another original by Irv Baker [irvingb@sonic.net].

A traveling salesman was driving through the marshy Louisiana countryside one night when he missed a turn and found himself in a ditch. There was nothing around but he saw a light at the end of a boardwalk so that’s where he went. The door was answered by a man who said that there was not much they could do at night but the salesman could stay at the house and they would get the car out of the ditch in the morning. The next morning the salesman awoke to see his host going out the door with a shotgun. He asked where the guy was going and got this reply. ” Gonna get a rabbit for breakfast. On the morning after you need some of the hare of the bog that ditched you.”