Excerpt: ...gingham dress and with a white turban on her head, was rocking in a big arm chair on this porch when the children appeared. "Lawsy me!" she exclaimed, smiling broadly to show firm white teeth in spite of her age. "Is this yere a celebration or is it a parade? Miss Philly, you got a smooch on dat waist, and your skirt is hiked up behind. I declar' I believe you've lost a button." "Why, so I have, Mammy June," answered 125 Phillis. "And more than one. Nobody has time to keep buttons sewed on up at the house, now ...
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Excerpt: ...gingham dress and with a white turban on her head, was rocking in a big arm chair on this porch when the children appeared. "Lawsy me!" she exclaimed, smiling broadly to show firm white teeth in spite of her age. "Is this yere a celebration or is it a parade? Miss Philly, you got a smooch on dat waist, and your skirt is hiked up behind. I declar' I believe you've lost a button." "Why, so I have, Mammy June," answered 125 Phillis. "And more than one. Nobody has time to keep buttons sewed on up at the house, now that you're not there." "Shiftless, no-count critters, dem gals up dere. Sho, honey! who is all dese lil' white children?" "Bunkers," explained Frane, Junior. "What's dem?" asked Mammy June, apparently puzzled. "Is dey to play with, or is dey to eat? Bunkers! Lawsy!" Rose giggled delightedly. "They are to play with," laughed Alice suddenly. "That is what they are for, Mammy June." "You see you play pretty with them, then," said the old woman, shaking her head and speaking admonishingly. Rose and Russ Bunker at least began to understand that this pleasant old colored woman had had the chief care of the three young Armatages while they were little. Perhaps she had trained them quite as much as their mother and father. And they seemed to love Mammy June accordingly. That the old woman loved little folks and knew how to make friends with them 126 was soon apparent. She had Mun Bun and Margy both together in her ample lap while Laddie and Vi leaned against her and listened to the tale she was telling the little folks. Phillis and Alice meanwhile showed Rose the interior of the cabin and all its comforts and wonders. Meanwhile Frane, Junior, took Russ down to the stream with some of the colored children to show him some of the big fish he had threatened Laddie with. Here it was that Russ Bunker engaged in h 127 is first adventure at the Meiggs Plantation. CHAPTER XIII THE CATFISH "If Sneezer was here," said Frane, Junior, "he'd show you more fish...
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