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 ...

222 THE STORY OF MY LIFE.
I can't. Doan it say somewhar t' do jess as you want t' be
did by? An' doan it say somewhar else, when you puts
youah han' t' de plough, nebber turn back agin? I jess
doan know wat'll happen t' dese yere chillun, ef you turn
back - an' deys sech powerful good chillun, honey, an' dey
loves you so! You mus' 'member dar's a God in hebben,
wat'll make all t'ings right. We can't, but he can, an'
he will, honey!"