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.

One of these was Miss Martineau's passion for scrupulous cleanliness. Everybody and everything about her must
be clean--very clean. She would have the cow washed,
curried, combed, and provided with clean bedding almost
every day. "She would have her treated like a lady!"
the woman explained. "Cows are clever beasts," she continued, "and when they are kind and affectionate you do
not mind doing a good turn for them. But the big pig
Miss Martineau always had,--he was another kind of
fellow, I can tell you."
And then she proceeded to tell us how they were ordered to put the pig into a tub of warm soap suds every
week, and scrub, and comb, and dry him. His feet were
washed as carefully as those of a baby; the stone floor of
his pen was scrubbed and dried, and clean litter put in
every day for piggy's bed. "This warnt no small job
now, I tell you," said the woman. "Piggy.never liked
these proceedings, and from the minute the washing began
until I got through he squealed so that I was deaf for a
whole day afterward. You never heard such squealing in
your life! And what good did it all do? The pig liked
to be dirty, and he tried to be dirty; and by the end of
the next day he was as nasty a pig as could be found
anywhere. Nevertheless we had to do it. But then, the
dear lady was so good to the poor, and to little children,
and to my man and me when we were- sick, that I didn't
used to make. a bit of fuss about washing him, it was
little enough I could do to pay her for all her kindness."
Through Miss Frances Power Cobbe, I received an invitation to a conference held at the house of Lord Chief
~Justice Coleridge, and there, among other eminent people,
met the Bishop of London and Cardinal Manning. The latter impressed me immensely. He seemed more like a spirit