TABLE OF CONTENTS

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My Ancestors[9]
Woburn[10]
Traditions[12]
Records[15]
Old Homestead[17]
Jim Hall[19]
Love Spats[20]
Jim's Story[31]
The Arrest[35]
The Martyrs[37]
The Escape[38]
Stubbs' Store[40]
Susan Beaver[45]
Revenge[49]
Alone in the Wilderness[51]
Hunting for Baby[54]
Muldoon[57]
Our Wabbaquassett Mountain Home[61]
Woodchuck in the Wall[64]
Sunday Morning[69]
Husking Bee[76]
Prayer Meeting at Uncle Sam's[78]
Golden Days[81]
The Wild Sexton Steer[83]
School Days[87]
Country Boys in Town[89]
As a Yankee Tin Peddler[94]
The Thompson Family[97]
John Brown[99]
The Dead Appear[106]
Vida's Daring Exploit[108]
Owen Brown's Story[110]
After the Mist Had Cleared Away[115]
Yankee Horsemen Go West[117]
My Relation[121]
Horse Jockies[123]
Landed in Chicago[126]
Dr. Thomas[128]
Early Chicago[131]
Horse Racing in Chicago[134]
Hopeful and Rarus[137]
Chicago Piety[141]
Public Conveyance[143]
My Athletic Exploits[146]
My First Hundred Mile Run[148]
Arthur's and Walton's Long Run[151]
The First Century Race[157]
Dead Glacier[160]
Miraculous Escape From a Bear[168]
My Education[173]
Hawaiian Islands[176]
South Sea Islands and Australia[180]
New Guinea[183]
Cochin China[190]
Mesopotamia[192]
Rud Hurner[193]
Off for Babylon[198]
On the Euphrates[200]
On the Shat-el-chebar[201]
Koofa, Arabia[203]
The Sheik of Koofa[205]
Wild, Yet Beautiful[209]
Nazzip[211]
The Man I Had Seen Before[212]
Real Bedouins After Us[214]
Suspicion Aroused[217]
The Rechabites[221]
Sleeping Beauty of the Desert[225]
The Abandoned Castle[227]
Mary Magdalene[229]
Dina of Endor[231]
The Home of Magdalene[235]
John and Magdalene[237]
Ruth[240]
Darkness Over Galilee[242]
Surprise for the Pharisees[248]
Council of the Disciples[251]
Turn of the Tide[253]
Magdalene's Heroic Plea[255]
Jesus Speaks[261]
The Exodus[262]
Waiting By the Jordan[265]
In Council at Jericho[267]
Arrival at Jerusalem[270]
Adultery[272]
Magdalene Pleading With Jesus[278]
At the Home of Mary and Martha[280]
A Naughty Maid[282]
Lazarus Restored[285]
Conspiracy to Murder Jesus[287]
The Mob Fall Upon Jesus[292]
Magdalene Before Caiaphas[295]
Jesus Before Pilate[300]
The Crucifixion[302]
Alone on Olivet[304]
Magdalene Herself Again[307]
Ruth Comes to Meet Magdalene[311]
Joseph's Last Interview[312]
Magdalene's Last Night With John[315]
Last Good-Bye[321]
The Prickett Home[324]
Ourselves[326]
William James, of Harvard[328]
Gladstone[335]
Evening of My Life Day[340]
Fifty-four Miles' Hike[342]
Back Home[348]

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Merrick A. Richardson[i]
Camp of the Stafford Pioneers[14]
Ancient Cemetery of the Stafford Pioneers[16]
Winnie Richardson[21]
Good Morning, Miss Richardson[23]
Jim in the Woods[52]
Our Mountain Home[61]
Chasing for a Kiss[76]
Prayer Meeting at Uncle Sam's[80]
When the Folks Were Away[84]
The Aborn Home[86]
Wabbaquassett Girls[88]
Charming Old Wabbaquassett[90]
Album of Sunny Days[94]
Mary Jane Hoyt[96]
John Brown, 1850[99]
Vida Thompson's Midnight Ride[109]
Near John Brown's Adirondack Home[115]
Yankee Horsemen[117]
Horse Sales[123]
Dr. Thomas[128]
Early Chicago[142]
G. M. Richardson and Family[144]
Saddle Horse Days[148]
Cycling Run to South Park[150]
North Shore, Loon Lake, Winona Grove[152]
The Fox River Bicycle Race[158]
Arthur Richardson and Friends[164]
Easter Island[181]
New Guinea[187]
Mesopotamia Servants[193]
Desert Life Among the Arabs[209]
Ruins of Tadmor[227]
Mary Magdalene[231]
Prickett Home[324]
Arthur Richardson and His Twins[336]
Our Oak Park Home[338]
Fannie Peterson[342]
Vida[344]
Barbara Beaver[346]
My Children[349]

LOOKING BACK

MY ANCESTORS