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.

seen 'im. He's run away heaps o' times, an' got cotched
eb'ry time, an' Mas'r b'lieved he was gittin' ready t' go
ag'in. Mas'r 'd
S.a los 'im ef he
hadn't sold 'im.
"An' Patsy's
sold, too. She
was the triflin'est, an' de
mos' worfless
Sniggah I eber
Stadid see. I tol'
" you, you 'memSber, how she
Sput de clo'es on
t' bile in de
wash-house wi'
no water in 'em,
A MOTHER'S ANGUISH. an' let 'em all
"She screeched and screeched when she larnt dat de baby was to burn t' de ketbe left."
tie. Missis was
mighty glad t' have Patsy sold, she was dat worfless!
Oh, Miss, you don't know nuffin' 'bout de Souf!"
How clearly I realized that the people at the North
knew nothing of the institution of slavery. I had heard
them defend it - and depict it as a humane organization.
How utterly they failed to comprehend its brutalizing influence on the finest characters, or dreamed of the outrages
inflicted on the poor blacks.
The books on Natural History, which had been ordered
from New York, arrived in due time, and Dick was unspeakably happy! His possession of them marked an epoch in
his life. He began to study from them at once, reading an