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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82 THE STORY OF' MY LIFE.
"What are you going to do with them, my daughter?
"Keep 'em! " I answered with spirit. "I was going to
give 'em. one apiece, all round; but now, they shan't have a
piece of one." My mother's question had suggested this
method of retaliation.
"11That's right! " was her endorsement, and bringing a
small empty box they were disposed of for the night,- and,
as far as I was concerned, for all time, for I never saw them
afterwards.