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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THE STORY OF MY LIFE.

forgave him, and promised whatever he asked, ratifying
their pledges with a profusion of kisses, the heartiness of
which he vowed "had nearly denuded his bearded face of
skin." Then taking Laura, who had not participated in the
frolic, in his arms, he whispered his good-bye, tenderly
kissed her, and
darted away to
a e his wife with
S the lightness of
a boy.
S"Hardly had
we separated
"in divergent directions, the
a t- his achildren s t il l
accompany i n g
me, when we
ran upon Black
"DE MILL'S DUN BURNT UP!" Peter, who
He looked more like a scarecrow than ever in his flapping rags. seemed to have
sprung out of the ground. He looked more like a scarecrow
than ever in his flapping rags, and was absolutely ashen with
fear and excitement. Shouts of astonishment and laughter
greeted him, but he took no notice of the demonstration, he
was so brimming over with the news he had come to impart.
"How-d'ye, Miss? How-d'ye, Mas'r Dick? How-d'ye,
Miss Lorry an' Miss Mary? " was his salutation, as he pulled
at his foretop and scraped one foot backwards on the ground.
"De mill's dun burnt up, plum clean, an' de cooper's shop,
an' eberyt'ing; an' I spec's de big house dun burnt up, too,
by dis time!" And he shook from head to foot with fear.
"An' Aunt Aggy an' Oncl' Henson, dey tol' me come up
heah an' tell you to stay whar you be, fo' de debble broke