Abraham Lincoln . THE SPOT ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE CABIN IN WHICHABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN. [From a photograph taken by the author, 1890. The stones at thefoot of the pear-tree mark the locality of the fireplace.] EARLY YEARS. VJ. The wife had not many utensils for house - keeping — probably aDutch-oven, frying-pan, a few tin dishes, Avooden phvtes, and a of his ancestors could have ever lived in a home more destitute ofneeded articles or one more cheerless. Perchance the cabin of his fatheron the Yadkin or that at Bear-grass Fort may have been but little bet-ter; but the home of Morde
Abraham Lincoln . THE SPOT ONCE OCCUPIED BY THE CABIN IN WHICHABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN. [From a photograph taken by the author, 1890. The stones at thefoot of the pear-tree mark the locality of the fireplace.] EARLY YEARS. VJ. The wife had not many utensils for house - keeping — probably aDutch-oven, frying-pan, a few tin dishes, Avooden phvtes, and a of his ancestors could have ever lived in a home more destitute ofneeded articles or one more cheerless. Perchance the cabin of his fatheron the Yadkin or that at Bear-grass Fort may have been but little bet-ter; but the home of Mordecai,theiron-founder of Scituate, and thatof Mordecai, the land proprietorof Freehold and Amity, werepalaces in comparison with thishabitation. Shall we concludethat inability to acquire wealthor that intellectual decadence arethe natural outcome of the ad-verse circumstances of life on thepicket - line of civilization ( It isnot probable that the grandfa-ther or father of Thomas Lincolnhad much opportunity to attendschool. Theirs was a limitededucation. The owner of thehome on Xolins Creek ditl notknow the letters of the alpha-bet until taught them by his devoted wife. How shall we accountfor the gradual waning of in
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