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Updated: June 2, 2025
"You gwine raise chickens an' chillun." "Ugh!" said Annette as the other girls laughed; "are his eyes b-blue?" Aunt Melvy pondered over the leaves. "Well, now, 'pears to me he's sorter dark-complected an' fat, like Mr. Sid Gray," she said. "Never!" declared Annette. "I loathe Sid." "Tell my future!" cried Martha, pushing her cup forward eagerly.
"Yo' chillun am the sweetest in de world," said the cook. "Dem globes am de werry t'ing I needed to keep ma hands warm," came from Sam. It was fully an hour before the children felt like sitting down to breakfast. Before they began the repast Mr. Bobbsey brought forth the family Bible and read the wonderful story of Christ's birth to them, and asked the blessing.
She could hardly wait to get her hat and coat off, but would come tearing into the studio, pulling off her wraps as she came, hair flying, cheeks glowing, looking very like Brer Rabbit, Molly declared, when he ran down the hill with the six tin plates fer the chillun to sop outen; and the six tin cups fer the chillun to drink outen; the coffee pot fer the fambly; and the hankcher fer hisself, hollerin': "Gimme room, gimme room". They gave her room, all right, especially if her medium happened to be water color, as Judy was a grand splasher and spared neither water nor paint.
De house burnt down, but de white folks built me a better one. Dey's good an' kin' to me. Dey say I's a good man. "My wife was six year old at de surrender. She b'longed to Marse Alf, but we was free when we married. We had sixteen chillun. Mos' of 'em lives 'roun 'here. Some in Newton, some in Scott, an' some in Texas. My wife died two years ago las' March.
"UNC REMUS," asked a tall, awkward-looking negro, who was one of a crowd surrounding the old man, "w'at's dish 'ere w'at dey calls de fonygraf dish yer inst'ument w'at kin holler 'roun' like little chillun in de back yard?" "I ain't seed um," said Uncle Remus, feeling in his pocket for a fresh chew of tobacco. "I ain't seed um, but I year talk un um.
"Old woman what cooked for the chillun was old Aunt Henie and she walked half bent with a stick. "I went to school some after freedom. Learned how to spell and read but not much writin'. "I can't tell you 'bout no whippin's 'cause if they whipped the folks they didn't do it at the quarters where the chillun was. "I been farmin' all my life till I come to Arkansas in 1916.
De newspapers say as how diseases is all caused by Germans gittin' in de food an' bein' breathed in de lungs, givin' folks hydrophobia an' lumbago an' consumption. Dis brings us to de time when Abraham led de chillun ob Israel into Egypt, an' Moses led 'em out again case de folks ob Egypt so bad dey shoot craps all day, and eben make Faro de king.
She spoke of grown men and women there as "children whar I raised." "Lord! boss, does you know Miss Sadie? Well, I nussed her and I nussed all uv them chillun; that I did, sah! Yawl chillun does look hawngry, that you does. Well, you's welcome to them vittles, and I'm powful glad to git dis spoon. God bless you, honey!"
"Well, chillun," said Mammy, plucking away at the chicken, "dat's so; it is a curus name like; me'n de ole man he dead an' gone, chillun, long fo' you was born; me'n de ole man 'sulted long time 'bout dat chile's name an' he war goin' on six months old fo' we name him at all." "Well, how did you happen to call him Grief?" insisted Joe. "Yes, honey, yes.
"John Jay," she called, "what you doing', chile?" "Heah I is, Mammy," he answered. "I'se jus' takin' keer o' the chillun!" "That's right, honey, I've got somethin' mighty good in my basket fo' we all's suppah. Hurry up now, an' tote in some kin'lin' wood." Never had John Jay sprung to obey as he did then. He shivered when he thought of his narrow escape.
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