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Show . , Inexperienced. In a boarding house for bachelors, Amanda, typical "Mammy," looked after af-ter the guests' comfort in true southern south-ern style so well that one of the men thought he'' would take her away with him in the summer in the capacity of housekeeper. Toward spring he waylaid way-laid her. in the hall one day and said: "Mandy, do, you like the country?" Mandy reckoned she did. "Would you like to go away with me this summer and keep house for me?" : - Mandy was sure she would. "Suppose I get just a bungalow. Do you think you could take care of it nicely by yourself?" - . Mandy gasped and rolled her eyes. "'Deed, no, niassa! Reckon you all better get somebody else; I don't know nothih' about taking care of any animals!" Harper's Magazine. : |