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Spoons and so on are unmistakable but one sprigged saucer is very like other saucers sprigged the same. It was the Mammies rather than the masters and mistresses, who ordered carriage drivers and horse boys imperiously about. But nobody minded the imperiousness it was no day for quarrelling or unwisdom.
I insisted, however, on riding through them, when, not much to my surprise, I found about twenty large unbranded calves, apparently without their "mammies."
"I say let 'em go home and see their mammies," replied one of the squad; and the others nodding assent, the corporal jerked his thumb over his shoulder and told them to "git." "It is no more than we expected of you, but we thank you all the same," said Rodney, gratefully. "I live down this way, three miles from Mooreville, and if you ever come along our road, drop in and we'll treat you right.
But the wretched creature had only been doing the best according to her light for the welfare of her miserable child; while here with their eyes open, with their cultured consciences the wives of these same philanthropists were doing the same thing every day the very same! "Having gone for the mammies like this, he went for the dear girls themselves one better.
He talked, and that was the most interesting part of it all, of his going to work in a factory when he was twelve "when you Chaps were all with your mammies " and how he had educated himself of nights until he would fall asleep at his reading. "It's made many of us keen for all our lives," he remarked, "all that clemming for education. Why! I longed all through one winter to read a bit of Darwin.
Heah it come f'om a ole 'oman, too! Shame on you, boys, ter let po' ole Aunt Charity Pettigrew, wha' nussed yo' mammies, an' is half-blin' an' deef at dat shame on yer ter let 'er lif' dis train out'n de mud! An' yer know she kyant heah me nuther. She des brung a wheel 'caze she felt de yearth trimble, an' knowed de train was stallded!
The two mammies were seated side by side on a bank, sewing and talking busily their large aprons and caps making a splotch of white against the green willows beyond and in front of them at a little distance a brown-haired boy of five and a yellow-ringleted girl of three were at play on the turf, rolling over and over, shouting and laughing in their glee.
Along the shaded walks laughing boys and girls romped all day, with hoop and ball, attended by old black mammies in white aprons and gayly colored bandannas; while in the more secluded corners, sheltered by protecting shrubs, happy lovers sat and talked, tired wayfarers rested with hats off, and staid old gentlemen read by the hour, their noses in their books.
Sierra Leone has all the hall marks of the crown colony of the tropics; good wharfs, clean streets, innumerable churches, public schools operated by the government as well as many others run by American and English missions, a club where the white "mammies," as all women are called, and the white officers for Sierra Leone is a coaling station on the Cape route to India, and is garrisoned accordingly play croquet, and bowl into a net.
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