Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . with the hiredman. The man hesitated, and asked: Where is he? Well, said Mr. Brown, -you can come and seehim. So the man got down from his crittur, and Mr. Browntook him around to where, in the shade of the house, lay his full length on the ground, with an openbook before him. There, said Mr. Brown, pointing at him, he is. The stranger looked at him a minute, and said: Well, I think hell do. and he staid and slept withthe President of the
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . with the hiredman. The man hesitated, and asked: Where is he? Well, said Mr. Brown, -you can come and seehim. So the man got down from his crittur, and Mr. Browntook him around to where, in the shade of the house, lay his full length on the ground, with an openbook before him. There, said Mr. Brown, pointing at him, he is. The stranger looked at him a minute, and said: Well, I think hell do. and he staid and slept withthe President of the United States. ??- When and Where Lincoln Obtained the Nameof Honest Abe. During the year that Lincoln was in Denton Offcuttsstore, that gentleman, whose business was somewhatwidely and unwisely spread about the country, ceased toprosper in his finances, and finally failed. The storewas shut up, the mill was closed, and Abraham Lincolnwas out of business. The year had been one of greatadvance, in many respects. He had made new and val-uable acquaintances, read many books, mastered thegrammar of his own tongue, won multitudes of friends,. EARLY LIFE. 39 and became ready for a step still further in who could appreciate brains respected him, andthose whose ideas of a man related to his muscles weredevoted to him. It was while he was performing thework of the store that he acquired the soubriquet Hon-est Abe.—a characterization that he never dishonored,and an abbreviation that he never outgrew. He wasjudge, arbitrator, referee, umpire, authority, in all dis-putes, games and matches of man-flesh and horse-flesh;a pacificator in all quarrels; everybodys friend; the bestnatured, the most sensible, the best informed, the mostmodest and unassuming, the kindest, gentlest, roughest,strongest, best young fellow in all New Salem and theregion round about. ?- Lincolns Mechanical Ingenuity. That he had enough mechanical genius to make him agood mechanic, there is no doubt. Wit
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