Looking Back: An Autobiography
MERRICK RICHARDSON AT THE AGE OF SEVENTY-FIVE.
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.
Privately Printed
CHICAGO: MCMXVII
Copyright 1917 By Merrick Abner Richardson
My spare time, only, is occupied in literary efforts. I never allow them to interfere with either my business or social life.
In composing, in a mysterious way, I comprehend the companionship of my imaginary friends as vividly as I do the material associates of life. To me imagination is the counterpart or result of inspiration, while inspiration is light thrown upon the unrevealed. The image may be the result of known or unknown cause, but the mystery does not blot out the actual existence of the image. The material image we call sight, the retained memory, and the unknown revelation, but all are comprehensive images.
Merrick Abner Richardson
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LOOKING BACK
PREFACE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MY ANCESTORS
WOBURN
TRADITIONS
MY GRANDMOTHER'S STORY
RECORDS
OLD HOMESTEAD
JIM HALL
LOVE SPATS
JIM'S STORY
CASCO BAY
DEACON HOBBS
THE ARREST
THE MARTYRS
THE ESCAPE
PAUL DIMOCK
SUSAN BEAVER
REVENGE
ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS
HUNTING FOR BABY
MULDOON
OUR WABBAQUASSETT MOUNTAIN HOME
WOODCHUCK IN THE WALL
SUNDAY MORNING
FIRST DAY
SECOND DAY
THIRD DAY
FOURTH DAY
FIFTH DAY
SIXTH DAY
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.
NEAR HARPER'S FERRY.
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
THE SECOND RACE
DEAD GLACIER
THE FOREST.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM A BEAR
MY EDUCATION
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
THE ANCIENT CITADEL
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
JONA AND HIS WIVES
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
THE RESURRECTION
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
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