PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MY ANCESTORS

WOBURN

TRADITIONS

RECORDS

OLD HOMESTEAD

JIM HALL

LOVE SPATS

JIM'S STORY

THE ARREST

THE MARTYRS

THE ESCAPE

STUBBS' STORE

SUSAN BEAVER

REVENGE

ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS

HUNTING FOR BABY

MULDOON

OUR WABBAQUASSETT MOUNTAIN HOME

WOODCHUCK IN THE WALL

SUNDAY MORNING

HUSKING BEE

PRAYER MEETING AT UNCLE SAM'S

GOLDEN DAYS

THE WILD SEXTON STEER

SCHOOL DAYS

COUNTRY BOYS IN TOWN

AS A YANKEE TIN PEDDLER

THE THOMPSON FAMILY.

JOHN BROWN.

THE DEAD APPEAR

VIDA'S DARING EXPLOIT

OWEN BROWN'S STORY

AFTER THE MIST HAD CLEARED AWAY

YANKEE HORSEMEN GO WEST

MY RELATION

HORSE JOCKIES

LANDED IN CHICAGO

DR. THOMAS

EARLY CHICAGO

HORSE RACING IN CHICAGO

HOPEFUL AND RARUS

CHICAGO PIETY

PUBLIC CONVEYANCE

MY ATHLETIC EXPLOITS

MY FIRST HUNDRED MILE RUN

ARTHUR'S AND WALTON'S LONG RUN

THE FIRST CENTURY RACE

DEAD GLACIER

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM A BEAR

MY EDUCATION

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS

SOUTH SEA ISLANDS AND AUSTRALIA

NEW GUINEA

COCHIN CHINA

MESOPOTAMIA

RUD HURNER

OFF FOR BABYLON

ON THE EUPHRATES

ON THE SHAT-EL-CHEBAR

KOOFA, ARABIA

THE SHEIK OF KOOFA

WILD, YET BEAUTIFUL

NAZZIP

THE MAN I HAD SEEN BEFORE

REAL BEDOUINS AFTER US

SUSPICION AROUSED

THE RECHABITES

SLEEPING BEAUTY OF THE DESERT

THE ABANDONED CASTLE

MARY MAGDALENE

DINA OF ENDOR

THE HOME OF MAGDALENE

JOHN AND MAGDALENE

RUTH

DARKNESS OVER GALILEE

SURPRISE FOR THE PHARISEES

COUNCIL OF THE DISCIPLES

TURN OF THE TIDE

MAGDALENE'S HEROIC PLEA

JESUS SPEAKS

THE EXODUS

WAITING BY THE JORDAN

IN COUNCIL AT JERICHO

ARRIVAL AT JERUSALEM

ADULTERY

MAGDALENE PLEADING WITH JESUS

AT THE HOME OF MARY AND MARTHA

A NAUGHTY MAID

LAZARUS RESTORED

CONSPIRACY TO MURDER JESUS

THE MOB FALL UPON JESUS

MAGDALENE BEFORE CAIAPHAS

JESUS BEFORE PILATE

THE CRUCIFIXION

ALONE ON OLIVET

MAGDALENE HERSELF AGAIN

RUTH COMES TO MEET MAGDALENE

JOSEPH'S LAST INTERVIEW

MAGDALENE'S LAST NIGHT WITH JOHN

LAST GOOD-BYE

THE PRICKETT HOME

OURSELVES

WILLIAM JAMES, OF HARVARD

GLADSTONE

EVENING OF MY LIFE DAY

FIFTY-FOUR MILES' HIKE

BACK HOME

i1

LOOKING BACK

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By

Merrick Abner Richardson

AUTHOR OF

"JIM HALL AND THE RICHARDSONS", "EIGHT DAYS OUT", "MINA FAUST",
"ROSE LIND", "PERSONALITY OF THE SOUL", "CHICAGO'S
BLACK SHEEP", "TWILIGHT REFLECTIONS."

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CHICAGO: MCMXVII

Copyright 1917
By
Merrick Abner Richardson