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Ole Mammy's Torment

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Title: Ole Mammy's Torment
Author: Annie Fellows Johnston

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OLE MAMMY'S TORMENT
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[Illustration: Bud and Ivy]

OLE MAMMY'S TORMENT
by
ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON
Illustrated by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker

[Illustration: Publisher's crest]

Boston L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) Publishers Copyright, 1897 by L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) Thirteenth Impression, February, 1907 Fourteenth Impression, March, 1909 Fifteenth Impression, August, 1910 =Colonial Press:= Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

TO TWO TORMENTS WHOM I KNOW

[Illustration: Illustrations]

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE BUD AND IVY Frontispiece
JOHN JAY 2
"'WOT WE ALL GWINE DO NOW?'" 7
MARS' NAT 29
"A GROUP OF PRETTY GIRLS SAT ON THE PORCH" 37
"FILLED BOTH HIS HANDS" 41
UNDER THE APPLE-TREE 52
UNCLE BILLY 65
"THE GANDERS HAD CHASED HIM AROUND" 76
"GEORGE CAME OUT AND LOCKED THE DOOR" 93
"SAT ALONE BY THE CHURCH STEPS" 111
[Illustration: Cabin]

OLE MAMMY'S TORMENT.
CHAPTER I.
Uncle Billy rested his axe on the log he was chopping, and turned his grizzly old head to one side, listening intently. A confusion of sounds came from the little cabin across the road. It was a dilapidated negro cabin, with its roof awry and the weather-boarding off in great patches; still, it was a place of interest to Uncle Billy. His sister lived there with three orphan grandchildren.
Leaning heavily on his axe-handle, he thrust out his under lip, and rolled his eyes in the direction of the uproar. A broad grin spread over his wrinkled black face as he heard the rapid spank of a shingle, the scolding tones of an angry voice, and a prolonged howl.
"John Jay an' he gran'mammy 'peah to be havin' a right sma't difference of opinion togethah this mawnin'," he chuckled.
He shaded his eyes with his stiff, crooked fingers for a better view. A pair of nimble black legs skipped back and forth across the open doorway, in a vain attempt to dodge the descending shingle, while a clatter of falling tinware followed old Mammy's portly figure, as she made awkward but surprising turns in her wrathful circuit of the crowded room.
[Illustration: John Jay]
"Ow! I'll be good! I'll be good! Oh, Mammy, don't! You'se a-killin' me!" came in a high shriek.
Then there was a sudden dash for the cabin door, and an eight-year-old colored boy scurried down