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.

68. THREE LOUD RAPS SOUNDED ON Mr DOOR... 289
" Come inI" I waited. "Come in! " I sprang to the door. Nobody was
there.
69. A FATHER'S ANXIETY...... 297
Nearer - nearer - nearer- yes, there were two horses. Mr. Henderson was
coming, thank God I
70. DEATH OF LAURA. -WHAT HAD HAPPENED? WHO
CALLED ME? (Full Page.) DESIGNED BY EDMUND H.
GARRETT......... Toface 300
I took her little limp hand in mine. An icy chill ran through my veins. I
placed my hand over her heart, but detected no pulsation. The marble pallor of
death was there, and an expression of infinite peace and blessedness which surpassed human understanding.
71. DUST TO DUST.- BURIAL OF LAURA..... 312
72. THE ILL-FAVORED SLAVE-TRADER...... 319
"They all look jest like this fellar."
73. A MOTHER'S ANGUISH......... 330
" She screeched and screeched when she larnt dat de baby was to be leff."
74. UNCLE HENSON "CUTS THE PIGEON WING".... 333
75. A PLANTATION " CORN-SHUCKING "-SOCIAL MEETING OF SLAVES. (Full Page.) DESIGNED BY HOWARD
HELMICK......... To face 336
Costumed in every variety of nondescript garments, with faces of every
shade of black, as diverse in aspect as were their garments in fashion, they
seated themselves in groups around the mounds of unhusked corn.
76. THE DEPARTING GUESTS........ 340
Their torches were borne aloft, and their melodious voices rang out in song
as they marched away.
77. BROTHERLY ENCOURAGEMENT....... 347
" Go it, brudder, doan gib it up "
78. TRYING TO "COTCH DE CHUNE"...... 357
" A heap o' niggahs wi' der fiddles was a stan'in' in de storm tryin' t' cotch
de chune."
79. DEATH OF JAMIE......... 361
80. A BAR-ROOM AUDIENCE.-THE BEGINNING OF THE
GREAT TOTAL ABSTINENCE MOVEMENT. (Full
Page.) DESIGNED BY EDMUND H. GARRETT. To fac 374
The reform was inaugurated in Baltimore in 1840, by a club of six drinking
men, who met regularly in a bar-room for a "roaring good time." A temperance address to which all the club listened led them to sign the pledge of total
abstinence.
81. A CRISIS IN MY LIFE......... 387
I stood beside the church door, irresolute. Should I enter
82. FATE--MY FIRST MEETING WITH MR. LIVERMORE.. 391
83. MR. AND MRS. LIVERMORE........ 395
Reproduction of an old daguerreotype taken the day after their wedding,
May 7, 1845.
84. LAYING MY "NEWEST GRIEF" BEFORE MY HUSBAND. 404
"What am I to do with these packages of 'cooking soda' and 'cream of
tartar'? "
85. AN UNSEEN WITNESS......... 406
86. IGNOMINIOUS FATE OF MY FIRST FISH CHOWDER... 406
After dark, that night, the masculine head of the house quietly buried it in a
corner of the garden.