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..

grew religious and devout. I thrilled with patriotic feeling
when they rang out with "God Save the Queen," or " Hail,
Columbia, Happy Land," on
1 'the Fourth of July and the
Stwenty-second of February. I
became jubilant or solemn as
/ their music inspired me at
S/ Easter or Christmas, and I cannot now hear them without
being overwhelmed with
a flood of memories of the
i long past, in which figure those
Swhom I shall never again behold until I ascend the green
hills of the immortal life.
OLD NEW ENGLAND DOOR-KNOCKER. The house in which we lived
for the first ten years of my
life was set back so far from
the street that two houses
were built on each side, and
at right angles to it. That /
gave a large rectangular plat I
of open ground, common to
the five dwelling-houses
which partly encircled it.
They were all small and
unpretentious, unlike in appearance, but all open on
three sides to sunlight and
air. Our house gloried in an OLD NEW ENGLAND DOOR-KNOCKER.
adornment which the others lacked. On the front door
was a dumpy green iron knocker, which came down with so
prodigious a bang that it aroused the whole neighborhood.