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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, massa! Reckon you all better get somebody else; I don't know nothin' about taking care of any animals!" Plarper's Magazine. |