Excerpt from The Patriot, 1921 UN T betsy was a typical old negro mammy, although in her veins ran the blood of three races; the red, the white and the black. Doubtless this racial mixture accounted for her shrewdness and sense of humor, characteristics usually lacking in the dull, stupid negro of pure African descent. She retained, however, and in great abundance, many traits that infallibly appear in the true southern darkey, fore most among which was her love of pomp and show. On this particular morning in June, Aunt Betsy was down at the big house doin' up the clothes. Mrs. Landon, her mistress, (always called Miss Jane by Aunt Betsy) was reading on the front porch. A large black negro seated upon a lean gray horse rode up to the mounting block, dismounted, . Threw the reins over the drooping head of his steed, and made his way to the back door. Very soon after his disappearance around the corner of the house, Mrs. Landon heard Aunt Betsy break off in the middle of the fifth stanza of Old Time Religion and join in conversation with him. He reappeared in a few minutes and mounting his horse, rode away. Mrs. Landon, watching him as he rounded a curve, was startled by Aunt Betsy exclaiming, from the doorway, Law! Miss Jane, honey, don' he look han'some; an' ain't he got on the most elegant clothes? Evidently Aunt Betsy had been impressed by the red flannel shirt and black and white striped trousers of 'her caller.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.