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Title: Mammy 'mongst the wild nations of Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bibbins, Ruthella Bernard Mory, 1865-1942
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Publisher: New York, F. A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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do ? ** Thankee kinly, Misteh Davnpot, suh, saidMammy, accepting them with much pleasure. ** Isutney is glad wese got sumpn fer em. Hits jeslike gwine to a birf-day paty widout a gif, to comevisitin wid dese ole shrivelcd-up folks an not Icfcm sumpn consolin. *And so you think they look like people you know,Mammy ? said Dr. Irving quizzically, to draw herout; and then he added : * You know they say, if we go far enough back, our i68 MAMMY forefathers and the monkeys* were the same, onceupon a time. Deed, is dat so, Mist Davnpot, suh ? * saidMammy with profound interest. ** Well, I dont reckndeyd have to go back tall in some cases. I bet deyfomothers was monks too, jes same es dey pas; ferdey ain no two ways about it — some dem monks iskin to folks I knows. Mist Davnpot, she said withdecision, *an neah kin too. Dey actions, looks, anlinimints is de same as two peas in a pod, an ef deywas dressed up in de same sto-cloes, I dont blieveyou could tell turr fom which. No indeedy, chile !
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S0:N(E DEM MONKS IS KIN TO FOLKS I KNOWS, AN NEAH KIN TOO I CHAPTER XVIII ST. PAULS **CATHEDRUM ** Cherrybim an serryphim *—** Proper precautions —Battle-field and feather-bed heroes—A ** nerve-rackin* sarvice — Good Lawd, deliver us ! *—Chapel vs. church—Bird-carols atthe Foundling.^ HAVE you been to St. Pauls yet, Mammy ? in-quired one of her English patronesses, who iseager to have her miss none of the long-accepted** sights of London. Yassum. I been las Sunday;—but I ainthankerin to go agin soon, said Mammy, with a lackof enthusiasm which amazed her questioner. *Why, didnt you admire the Cathedral? sheexclaimed, surprised. ** Its the finest in London, infact in the world, I fancy; and you could n fail toenjoy the music and service, of course. Yassum, I liked de Cathedrum, Mammy saidappeasingly. ** Its gran an majestick, sho nough,wid all dem sky-scrapin curves an arches, an datdoom overhaid dat look so like de canerpy ob heaben,I spected to see cherrybim an serryphim

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