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Updated: May 24, 2025
The Southern mountaineers have little affinity, socially or politically, with the people of the settlements. There were never any slaveholders among them, and the few isolated negroes were treated with almost perfect equality by the simple-minded mountain dwellers. "Sammy honey, you an' Jimmy mus' cl'ar up yo' litter here. Don't leave it on mammy's nice flo'. Hit's mighty nigh supper-time.
"I wuz bawn in Murfreesboro on Stones River. I dunno how ole I ez en hit meks me 'shamed ter tell peeple dat, but mah mammy would hit me in de mouth w'en I'd ax how ole I wuz. She say I wuz jes' tryin' ter be grown." "Mah mammy's name wuz Frankie en mah daddy wuz Henry Ken Kannon. Don' member much 'bout mah mammy 'cept she wuz a sho't fat Indian 'oman wid a turrible tempah.
He told her all the tragedy of his short life, and how bad he felt, about Dad's taking to drink and Mammy's having to work so hard. The pitiful little sentences made Frances's heart ache. The maternal instinct of the true woman awoke in her. She took a sudden liking to the child. He was a spiritual little creature, and his sufferings had made him old and wise.
Margaret heard and ran from the hallway and down the steps, brushing away her tears with both hands. "Yes, you did you DID," she cried. "I hate you." "Why, Margaret," said General Dan. Chad startled and stung, turned without a word and, unnoticed by the rest, made his way slowly across the fields. It was the tournament that, at last, loosed Mammy's tongue.
Tess cheered the dwarf's despairing mood by a reassuring smile and confident nods of the shining curls. "Nope," she promptly promised. And, "Nope," repeated Orn, grimly. "Git back under the bed, now, old man. Any minute Sandy might be comin' in. Ye can't depend on that squatter. He'd steal the pennies off'n his dead mammy's eyes."
"I seed Miss Margaret an' Miss Lou out yander jest now," Kintchin answered, backing off as Peters advanced toward him. "I didn't ask about them. Whew, what you got sich a hot fire in here for?" "Mammy's been ironin'." "Yes. Been a meltin iron I should think. Is Starbuck at home? Answer me, you scoundrel."
He knew that Mammy's presence on the journey made no real difference in its guilt from Josephine's standpoint; her duty to her God was to remain at her post. She had flinched from it out of mere cowardice it was a fall. Caius knew that he had no choice but to help her back to her better self, that he would be a bastard if he did not do it.
Frank's foreign wife will bring her confessor, and there will be frogs for dinner; and all Tusher's and my grandfather's sermons are flung away upon my brother. I used to tell you that you killed him with the catechism, and that he would turn wicked as soon as he broke from his mammy's leading-strings.
And Mammy's old eyes lighted up as she went back to her youth and the glory of her family, for she still speaks with pride of her "fam'ly." "But Grief, Mammy?" said Jim. "Yes, honey, yes. Yer pappy and Grief war babies, an' Grief warn't named, an' Mas' Will an' Jerry was little boys, littler'n you. 'N one day Miss May, she come to the back do' an' call me.
"I hope I didn't interrupt your singing," he said awkwardly. "It was only one o' mammy's camp-meetin' songs," said the girl. "Your mother? Is she in?" he asked, glancing past the girl into the kitchen. "'Tain't mother she's dead. Mammy's our old nurse. She's gone to Jimtown, and taken my duds to get some new ones fitted to me. These are some o' mother's."
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