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 ...

HISTORIC BELLS OF BOSTON.

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as we called it then, the 1" back-yard." Here his large family
of twelve children and his grandchildren held their celebrations when they came together to honor
"their parents. Across the street was
the home of Major Bray, a man of distinction in those days, whose extensive
flower garden and blossoming shrubbery
were to me a perennial delight. A
strong friendship grew up between one
of the ladies of the Bray family and
myself in my early childhood, and I
remember with pleasure to this day the
e happy hours spent under the trees with
W1 my whilom friend, who told me stories,
and always sent me home with a cake,
a gift of candy, or a bouquet of flowers.
Only a few doors removed was the,' a North Church, where hung the first peal
of bells cast for "the British Empire in
North America." These bells were the
i /)r I source of immeasurable happiness to
THE OLD NORTH CHURCH, BOSTON, AND ITS HISTORIC BELLS.
The first peal of bells cast for " the British Empire in North America."
me. They assisted in my education, they aided in my
development. I listened to them as they played on the
ordinary occasions of church services and festivals, and