"Come, get up, and don't cry any more.
Why, it would come as near breaking my heart as yours, if we had to part.
What could I or my babies ever do without our old mammy to look after our comfort!" "Bress your heart, honey, you'se allus good an' kind to your ole mammy," Chloe said, checking her sobs and wiping away her tears, as she slowly rose to her feet; "de Lord bress you an' keep you.

Now let your mammy gib you one good hug, like when you little chile." "And many times since," said Elsie, smiling sweetly into the tear-swollen eyes of her faithful old nurse, and not only submitting to, but returning the embrace..