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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: away to stop the cry; but before he had reached the turn of the road, it seemed best for the family peace to call him back, and when he started off again his mouth was so full of small coins that he was afraid to run, and his mother shouted after him: Look out, an' don't swaller yo' foot 'fo'you git it And as she took up the baby for a little coddling, she mumbled to it lovingly: Nemmin'; when buddy comes, mammy gwine give her baby a nice, cool foot fresh out 'n de pickle. Hit's mighty tasty to cut feverin' toofs on, yas it is. And so, in a few minutes, did she, leaving the teether happily rolling in the clover with his tidbit, while she went to drop the remaining eleven into the greens-pot. ' Nemmin'; . . . mammy gain? give her baby a nice, cool foot.' Oh, love's my meat, oh, love's my drink? SO she sang as she stirred the coals. If the course of true love did not always run smooth with the generous liver and dispenser of life Rose Ann, it certainly ran with many a joyous ripple and song in these sunny days. If there were occasionally rocks in its river-bed, making passage difficult, they also served to froth the waters and to send them along to a merrier tune when once they were passed. And there were rocks in its course?rocks so formidable that at times they almost threatened to wreck the entire little fleet commanded by the brave admiral Rose Ann. Once in a great while there were cold days on Palmetto Bayou, and sometimes there were not even second-hand shoes for the little feet which were yet pink in the soles and unhardened to the frosty ground. And there were occasional crises when bacon and meal and molasses money had to go for quinine?when the mornings were foggy and the reed-grass and calamus wet along the bayou's brim. Napoleon knew c...