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 town at five o'clock in the morning. It was so important a matter that I would run no risk, and made my own
arrangements with the proprietor of the best livery stable
in the town, who agreed to call for me and drive me to the
station in season for this early train. I was informed by
the committee that I need give no further thought to the
matter, as the man was known to be perfectly reliable, and

IN THE ENGINEER'fS CAB.
Keeping a lecture engagement under difficulties.

had never failed to keep an engagement. "1Give yourself
no anxiety, Madam," were the parting words of the stable
proprietor; "if I am alive to-morrow morning, I shall call
for you promptly." 4
It is fair to assume that the man died suddenly during
the night, for I never saw him after this interview. I
waited on the piazza of my friend's house, "1gripsack" in
hand, and trunk by my side, - and heard the morning train