. St. Nicholas [serial]. ve been paid for her own disap-pointment in the old womans delight. Mammys own black mother had named herLouzza long, long years before even the chil-drens mother was born, and when she grewold enough and gentle and trustworthy enough to take charge of the nursery at the great house,to be • Mammy to its fair sons and daughters,she taught them to call her Mammy Louzzy. ? Lady-baby was Mammys own name for thedaughter babes, the boy being Junior Man. Of course there were lots of dolls in the nur-sery. Think of three girl children with no end ofdoting relatives, and then,
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ve been paid for her own disap-pointment in the old womans delight. Mammys own black mother had named herLouzza long, long years before even the chil-drens mother was born, and when she grewold enough and gentle and trustworthy enough to take charge of the nursery at the great house,to be • Mammy to its fair sons and daughters,she taught them to call her Mammy Louzzy. ? Lady-baby was Mammys own name for thedaughter babes, the boy being Junior Man. Of course there were lots of dolls in the nur-sery. Think of three girl children with no end ofdoting relatives, and then, if you have any ima-gination, you can see the corner where all the LADY-BABY. I 25 as is quite the thing in doll-town, while otherssat idly in rows, dangling their feet whereverthere was room. But there were not so many dollies in Mam-mys kingdom that any need be play-mother knew not only her ownchildren, but had pleasant social relations withthe entire village. Baby Louises favorite doll was one which. dolls lived. Here was even a tiny village witha street, if you please, and houses with dollslooking from their windows on either side —with trees here and there, and animals andback yards. There were dolls lying in cradles;some of these larger than the houses, of course, had come all the way from Piffets (pronouncedPeefay) in New Orleans, which is almost thesame as saying it came from Paris. It wasthe finest doll in the collection, because Mam-my, who had insisted on paying for it with herown monev, had dictated the order for the 126 LADY-BABY. very finest and best. She did not tell Louiseabout it until the dolly was daily expected bythe Mississippi boat, which always broughtbeautiful things from gay New Orleans; butfrom the moment Louise knew she was com-ing she began to speak of all the other dollsas the old dollies. She even discovered thatthe youngest had suddenly gotten through herteething, and had to be hurried into shortdresses and put in a
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