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 ...

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

22. MY SECRET DISCOVERED.... * * * 78
" Do you know anything about these shirts, Mary?"
23. DISCOVERY OF THE THEFT..... 75
24. SOME OLD NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL MA'AMS... 85
Middle aged " dames " who dozed in their chairs took snuff, drank tea, and
often something stronger from a bottle stowed away in a cupboard.
25. MEMORIES OF MY SCHOOL DAYS...... 86
We sometimes tipped off the bench backwards.
26. JOB TURNER, MY YOUTHFUL DEFENDER..... 89
27. CREMATION OF MY ONLY WAX DOLL..... 94
The flames enwrapped the devoted doll, while the smoke blinded and choked
us, and tears streamed down our sooty faces.
28. SEEING STARS.......... 95
She set me down in a kitchen chair with an emphasis that caused me to see
stars.
29. "WESTWARD Ho"......... 100
Our journey in an old-fashioned New England stage-coach.
30. OUR LoG HOUSE IN WESTERN NEW YORK.... 105
Ah, but it was a desolate place.
31. MY FIRST BOOKS.......... 120
I hid myself in some dimly-lighted corner where no one would look for me
and read on to the last page of the book,
32. FATE OF MY OFFENDING STAYS....... 123
He took from his pocket his sharp jackknife and cut asunder the lacings at
the back and the straps on the shoulders, and the stays dropped to the floor.
33. MY INTERVIEW WITH THE DRESSMAKER..... 125
I sought the establishment of a well-known dressmaker and bargained with
her to teach me her trade.
34. MY FIRST GREAT AFFLICTION-MY SISTER RACHEL'S
DEATH. (Full Page.) DESIGNED BY EDMUND H. GARRETT.......... To face 1836
My mother, who knelt beside me, enclosed me with her arms, and held me
tightly. My father made no comments, but remained on his knees sobbiing, until my unusual prayer was ended.
35. AN UNEXPECTED INVITATION....... 144
36. ON THE WAY TO "OLE VIRGINNY"...... 150
37. "WHO'S GETTING OUT Now, HE OR I?".... 152
38. MY ARRIVAL AT THE PLANTATION IN "OLE VIR-. GINNY." (Full Page.) DESIGNED BY WM. L. SHEPPARD.......... To face 154
The whole family were grouped on the piazza to welcome me. Scores of
woolly heads were framed in the windows, and projected from the doors of the
little whitewashed buildings, for " de teacher from de Norf had come."
39. AUNT. AGGY........... 166
She wore a towering bright colored turban, a white neckerchief folded
across her bosom, and an immaculate white apron.
40. "LOR ME, WHAR YOU COME FROM?"..... 167
41. AUNT PHENIE, THE COOK........ 169
"Sam, you brack rascal, take youah fingers outen dat shugah-bowl."
42. TEMPTATION........... 178
"Oh, Mas'r Dick, Mas'r Dick, come heah, quick, quick, quick I"
43. RESENTING PETE'S "SASS"........ 182