The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

AN EVENTFUL MORNING.

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plantation loved devotedly; and they did not hesitate to express disapproval of "de lady from de Norf dat had come
t' stop dem chilluns from gwine whar dey'd a min' to."
After the little Hendersons had located themselves in
their new quarters to their satisfaction, despatching the serraised a storm at once.
"Send the servants away! They've come to stay,- we
THE FIRST MORNING OF SCHOOL.
can't do withouse and tool-shop a ease don't send the servants off,
I undertook to dismiss the black children, and requested
them to take Jamie and Lily with them for the day. I
raised a storm at once.
"1 Send the servants away! They've come to stay,- we
can't do without 'em. Please don't send the servants off,
we must have 'em." And they rose from their seats and
protested in great distress. I laughed at their consternation, and repeated the order. "No, no," they cried; "don't
say they must go, for we need 'em all the time. We have
'em with us whenever we want 'em; please, please, let 'em
stay!" they implored with uplifted hands; and all joined
in the vociferous entreaty. "Please try 'em here awhile,
you'll like it yourself by-and-by."