noon
Now you come heah and get in my lap dis minute . '' The child , tired from play and romping around , lifted her arms to be taken up into her dear old mammy 's lap . With her curlv head pressed against Aunt Caroline 's breast , she fell asleep in a little while and was resting there long after Aunt Caroline had stopped tilting her chair forward and backward -- a way quite familiar to Southern nurses in lulling children to sleep . In a little while she had succumbed to the silent noon hour herself . `` Looka heah , nigger . What you mean holden dat chile in yer lap and you fast ter sleep ? Wake up .