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"What are you going to do now, Elsie?" asked Caroline, closing her book. "I am going down to the drawing-room to ask Aunt Adelaide to show me how to crochet this mitten for mammy," Elsie answered. "Won't you come along, girls?" "Yes, let's take our sewing down there," said Lucy, gathering up the bits of muslin and silk, and putting them in her work-box.
"Oh, mammy! oh, daddy! don't disappoint me," cried the girl. "Do do let me go, please, please." "Nora," said Mrs. O'Shanaghgan again, "I never saw you so unreasonable in your life; you are quite carried away. Your uncle, after long years, has condescended to send you an invitation, and you speak in this impulsive, unrestrained fashion.
"The poor little thing." Keineth lifted it. "It's dead!" "It's their new Japanese gold fish," added Barbara, who, with Mrs. Lee, had come down the steps from the veranda. "You'll have to pay for this, Billy!" "I think this is the last straw," said Mrs. Lee sternly, turning to her husband. "Oh, Mammy, he couldn't help it they swim round and he thinks they are playing!" Peggy implored.
As she sat deliberating as to what course of action would be the wisest, a sudden commotion arose among the children playing on the deck of the shanty boat. The dog began to bark furiously. "Mammy, here comes Pap," the oldest child cried. The tired girls could see that a sailboat was being anchored near the shore.
"Perhaps I should have drifted past with the snow," he said, "but the light in the window drew me, and I heard to-day from Fontenoy. Mr. Rand, I know, is at home." "Yes," answered Jacqueline, rising, "but he is much engaged to-night with with a friend. Did Joab not tell you?" "Mammy Chloe let me in. I did not see Joab. I am sorry " He hesitated.
Of course, a mammy can't be just what Mother Bunker is to us; but Mammy June is nice." "She's lots better to us than our mother, in some ways," said Alice bluntly. "Mother doesn't want us to play noisy in the house. She has headaches and stays on the couch a lot. We have to step soft and can't talk loud. But Mammy June never has the fidgets."
I was 90 years old the 25th of last month." Hall resides at 1225 High Ave., S.W., Canton, Ohio. Miriam Logan Lebanon, Ohio MRS. CELIA HENDERSON, aged 88. Born Hardin County, Kentucky in 1849 "Mah mammy were Julia Dittoe, an pappy, he were name Willis Dittoe. Dey live at Louieville till mammy were sold fo' her marster's debt.
"Besides," added Cy Perkins, "ef old Mammy wants to turn an honest penny in her old age, let her do it. How would you like your old mother to make pies on grub wages? eh?" The quality of these pies had never been discussed but once.
She had the best of care and nursing from her sisters, her sons, and her old mammy, assisted occasionally by other friends and relatives, and could not fail to read in their faces and the tones of their voices tender pity and sympathy for her in her sore affliction.
At sight of the sweet, troubled face the faithful creature just dropped into a chair, and throwing her apron over her head, rocked back and forth, moaning "You po' chile, you po' chile!" "Yes, mammy," cried Miss Lou, forgetting for the moment that a stranger was within hearing. "I'm in desperate straits, and I don't know what to do."
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