She'll be er breakin' out with the measles or sump'n some uv
these days, jes fur er judgment on her; an' I don't want ter be
catchin' no judgments just on account of her badness."
"Well, I'll take it back, Diddie," humbly answered Dumps. "I didn't
know it was wicked; and won't you sleep with me now?"
Diddie having promised to consider the matter, the little folks walked
slowly on to the house, Dilsey and Chris and Riar all taking turns in
telling them the wonderful spells and cures and troubles that Daddy
Jake had wrought with his "trick-bags."
CHAPTER XVII
WHAT BECAME OF THEM
WELL, of course, I can't tell you all that happened to these little
girls. I have tried to give you some idea of how they lived in their
Mississippi home, and I hope you have been amused and entertained; and
now as "Diddie" said about her book, I've got to "wind up," and tell
you what became of them.
The family lived happily on the plantation until the war broke out in
1861.
Then Major Waldron clasped his wife to his heart, kissed his
daughters, shook hands with his faithful slaves, and went as a soldier
to Virginia; and he is sleeping now on the slope of Malvern Hill,
where he
"Nobly died for Dixie."
The old house was burned during the war, and on the old plantation
where that happy home once stood there are now three or four chimneys
and an old tumbled-down gin-house.
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