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My Mammy, she sewed 'em fer ME, I reckon d'in' sew 'em fer no cat!" "Oh, PLEASE, come on, Herman!" Penrod begged pathetically. "You don't want to see the poor cat drown, do you?" "Mighty mean cat!" Herman said. "Bet' let 'at ole pussy-cat 'lone whur it is." "Why, it'll only take a minute," Sam urged.
I rather suspected Fred to have drawn upon his imagination for instances of the marvellous, for such adventures as he related never could have been met with; but Mammy and Jane believed it all. At the conclusion, the old nurse seemed very much disposed to punish us at once for all these united misdemeanors and was only prevented by our remonstrating upon the plea of a voluntary confession.
I warn't nuffin' ter what I war once, but dar war a power o' strength in me yet, ez he found out. "Dey tuk me up an' carried me ter jail, an' when de court come on, my ole mammy wuz dead; so I couldn't prove she war my mammy, an' I don't 'llow 'twould hev made enny difference ef I had.
Besides," continued John, "poor Marion Scott has got them very bad indeed, and I think you had best go home directly and tell your mammy, for the disease will soon spread all around, and I think you will be safest up the steps at this time, as you were last summer." "I shall not like that at all," said Tom, "I was so tired living up there.
Oh I was so sorry; and so before I got my dinner I hastened to Mammy's cabin, and found poor Mammy almost heart-broken, and Agnes lying dead, but looking just as natural as life." "She was dead, but had left one of the dearest little babies I ever saw.
It air yer own self, ain't it, Ezy?" "Yep." "Where air yer been?" "I dunno. I air sick unto death, I air." "Have ye seen yer mammy?" "Nope." "Nor Satisfied?" "Nope." "Then ye be a-goin' there now, ain't ye?" "Yep." "Was ye to Albany?" "Nope. I were sick in a house, and the big man from the hill were a-takin' care of me. I weren't a-goin' to stay no longer, so I runned away.
"I could cook on our stove in Ol' Connec., Missie Jean, but it's mighty hard work on dat," and she looked contemptuously at the rude fire-place. "To t'ink that we should ebber come to dis!" "Why, I think it's great, Mammy." "What' not better'n Ol' Connec.?" "Oh, not at all. But this might be worse. I miss our dear old home in Connecticut, and yet I have often longed for a life such as this.
"Oh, mammy," cried the girl, "I'm that hungry I could almost eat you, and I don't know when we'll have breakfast." "You des in time, den, honey. Come right in." But Miss Lou paused at the door in embarrassment, for Scoville had risen from the table and was advancing to meet her. "Good-morning, Miss Baron," he said.
She tottered to a seat under one of the trees. One or two more took their turn, among them Mammy, but the powders remained white. I had entreated Edward not to pronounce her 'witched, because she was so old and I loved her so: I could not bear that she should be frightened. You should have seen her when she found that she was safe.
But the courtly young Frenchman had quite as great a sense of noblesse oblige as his bride. He bowed to the black woman as though she was the highest lady in the land and accepted the parcel, tied clumsily with baby ribbon by the gnarled fingers of Mammy Rose. They moved on and the smiling, yet tearful, old woman, sank back into her seat.
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