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 ...

504 THE STORY OF MY LIFE.
There was a laugh, a hurried parley between the two
men, and then the conductor of the cattle train decided to
transport me to Cincinnati, if I would go as "live stock." I
was weighed as "live stock," billed as "live stock,"- but
put into the caboose, not into the cattle car, - and when I
reached my destination, my bill was made out according to
my weight avoirdupois, and I did what my four-footed traveling companions never do,- I paid my bill, and took a receipt for it. It was a hard, weary afternoon's work, but I
kept my engagement, and was enthusiastically welcomed by
the audience that had waited for me an hour and a half, in
a packed and crowded Opera House.