Pyrnelle, Louise Clarke, 1850-1907 / 2008-07-24 00:00:00
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[Illustration: EVENING DEVOTIONS.]
DIDDIE, DUMPS
& TOT
OR
PLANTATION CHILD-LIFE
By
Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle
Originally Published 1882
TO MY DEAR FATHER
DR. RICHARD CLARKE
OF SELMA, ALABAMA
MY HERO AND MY BEAU IDEAL OF A GENTLEMAN
I Dedicate this Book
WITH THE LOVE OF HIS
DAUGHTER
PREFACE.
In writing this little volume, I had for my primary object the idea of
keeping alive many of the old stories, legends, traditions, games,
hymns, and superstitions of the Southern slaves, which, with this
generation of negroes, will pass away. There are now no more dear old
"Mammies" and "Aunties" in our nurseries, no more good old "Uncles" in
the workshops, to tell the children those old tales that have been told
to our mothers and grandmothers for generations--the stories that kept
our fathers and grandfathers quiet at night, and induced them to go
early to bed that they might hear them the sooner.
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