Crossword-Solution: MAMMIES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Where there were Negro mammies, white children were likely to be haunted in the night by fear of ghosts.

And d'you know what impertinence is?” “I should do; I fancy I've--I awd say it's what gentlemen aften are unless their mammies whipped 'em as lads.” For a moment the parson looked as if about to seize his opponent and shake him.

Every morning the mammies and nurses with their charges were seated in a long, shining row on a part of the veranda where there was most passing and repassing, holding a sort of baby show, the social consequence of each one depending upon the rank of the family who employed her, and the dress of the children in her charge.

High-toned conversation on these topics occupied these dignified and faithful mammies, upon whom seemed to rest to a considerable extent the maintenance of the aristocratic social traditions.

Along the shaded walks laughing boys and girls romped all day, with hoop and ball, attended by old black mammies in white aprons and gayly colored bandannas; while in the more secluded corners, sheltered by protecting shrubs, happy lovers sat and talked, tired wayfarers rested with hats off, and staid old gentlemen read by the hour, their noses in their books.