British chatter about stray animal in stories (4,6)

I believe the answer is:

brer rabbit

'animal in stories' is the definition.
(rabbit in stories by Joel Chandler Harris)

'british chatter about stray' is the wordplay.
'british' becomes 'b' (abbreviation e.g. in 'BBC').
'chatter' becomes 'rabbit' (both can mean to talk excessively).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'stray' becomes 'err' (synonyms).
'rabbit' going around 'err' is 'rerrabbit'.
'b'+'rerrabbit'='BRER RABBIT'

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