A PLANTATION MEETING, AND UNCLE DANIEL'S SERMON
XIV. DIDDIE AND DUMPS GO VISITING
XV. THE FOURTH OF JULY
XVI. "'STRUCK'N UV DE CHIL'EN"
XVII. WHAT BECAME OF THEM
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DIDDIE, DUMPS AND TOT
CHAPTER I
DIDDIE, DUMPS AND TOT
THEY were three little sisters, daughters of a Southern planter, and
they lived in a big white house on a cotton plantation in Mississippi.
The house stood in a grove of cedars and live-oaks, and on one side
was a flower-garden, with two summer-houses covered with climbing
roses and honey-suckles, where the little girls would often have
tea-parties in the pleasant spring and summer days. Back of the house
was a long avenue of water-oaks leading to the quarters where the
negroes lived.
Major Waldron, the father of the children, owned a large number of
slaves, and they loved him and his children very dearly. And the
little girls loved them, particularly "Mammy," who had nursed their
mother, and now had entire charge of the children; and Aunt Milly, a
lame yellow woman, who helped Mammy in the nursery; and Aunt Edy, the
head laundress, who was never too busy to amuse them. Then there was
Aunt Nancy, the "tender," who attended to the children for the
field-hands, and old Uncle Snake-bit Bob, who could scarcely walk at
all, because he had been bitten by a snake when he was a boy: so now
he had a little shop, where he made baskets of white-oak splits for
the hands to pick cotton in; and he always had a story ready for the
children, and would let them help him weave baskets whenever Mammy
would take them to the shop.
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