Memoir of plantation childhood: family doctors, Uncle Kit, John and Louisa, Thomas Berry, Mam'mie's hospitality

because our family Dr. While we were on the plantation Dr. Grimbal took care of us and later on Dr. Taylor.

Uncle Kit made regular trips down. We loved him. Full of fun — and he always brought us presents. He came to go over business affairs with Dad. I never remember Aunt Sammy coming.

John and Louisa came with Aunt Helen Porcher. The first time they came to the country, John saw a cow he asked: “Does it walk through the house?”

Mauma Mim’s life was a very full one. The “mistress” on a plantation never knew what what she might be called on to do — from intertaining artists and authors, and notables — to being judge, and jury, in plantation arguments. As — when Thomas Berry — who wasn’t real bright — married a girl and then locked up his rations and refused to feed her.

And I might add this about company. No matter who they were — or where they came from — they were given a warm welcome to our way of living. But no changes were made in the house hold because of guests being in the house. Mauma Mim always said she had no company glass or china. That she used the