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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Violin and I go out I " - A long Tramp in the Moonlight on Christmas Night - Standing beside the Church Door - Shall I enter?
The Door suddenly opens - A Triumphant Burst of Song - I drop
into a vacant Seat - A remarkable Sermon - " He shall save his
People from their Sins" A Great Peace steals over me - Introducing myself to the Clergyman - He supplies me with Books and
Periodicals - My Teacher becomes my Husband - The Storm
bursts upon me - Friends forsake me - My Father Inconsolable'A complete Surrender,..... a a a. 384
CHAPTER XXIV.
WE COMMENCE HOUSEKEEPING - SOME COMICAL EXPERIENCES - MY FIRST FISH CHOWDER AND ITS IGNOMINIOUS
FATE - A PATIENT HUSBAND.
The Operatives o~f Fall River Fifty Years ago -My Husband and I make
the Acquaintance of his Parish - Our House of Six Rooms - I win a
Prize of Fifty Dollars for writing the best Story - We commence
Housekeeping - Wendell Phillips on Housekeeping - Trying TimesMy Culinary Experiments - Results - My Husband's Remarks -" We
never gauged the Heat of an Oven by a Thermometer, when I was a
Boy " - Cook-Books not very Abundant - Impossible Directions - My
First Fish Chowder - A Formidable Receipt -We bury the Chowder in
the Garden in the Darkness of Night - My Sister comes to my ReliefThe Terrors of Housekeeping vanish - Our little Home takes on Beauty
-A Tangle of Miscellaneous Work-Decide on a Change of Location, 398
CHAPTER XXV.
A MINISTER'5- HOUSE A FREE HOTEL - MY HOSPITALITY
TRESPASSED UPON - I TRY MY HAND AT TAILORINGA REMARKABLE PAIR OF TROUSERS.
Connecticut Thrift - The Stafford Parish - We become House-ownersTransforming our Desolate Purchase into a Place of Beauty - Our
House Headquarters for all Itinerants - "It is nothing when you
get used to it! "9- The Ominous Summons of the Door-Bell - The
"State Missionary" and his Wife - A Proceeding that took my
Breath away - My Dilemma - Friends come to my Rescue - Lead