67
VI. Uncle Snake-bit Bob's Sunday-school 82
VII. Poor Ann 92
VIII. Uncle Bob's Proposition 106
IX. Aunt Edy's Story 111
X. Plantation Games 119
XI. Diddie In Trouble 128
XII. How The Woodpecker's Head And The Robin's Breast
Came To Be Red 140
XIII. A Plantation Meeting, And Uncle Daniel's Sermon 152
XIV. Diddie And Dumps Go Visiting 166
XV. The Fourth Of July 182
XVI. "'Struck'n uv de Chil'en" 199
XVII. What Became Of Them 212
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Evening Devotions Frontispiece.
Sanitary Measures 19
Playing "Injuns" 39
"Ole Billy" 59
"The Tar Baby" 79
"My Min', Hit's Made Up" 103
"Yer'll all Be Havin' De Croup Next" 135
"Well, My Invice Is Dis" 147
"Monahs 'pun Top Er Monahs" 163
"Bringin' 'im the Picnic" 171
"Swinging On Grape-vines and Riding On Saplings" 195
"'Struck'n uv de Chil'en" 201
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
honeysuckles, 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
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