Joseph Crosby Lincoln . em in navigation till they werereadj^ to command ships of theirown. But young Lincolns relatives had other plans for thought he would make a splendid financier and ar-ranged for him to enter a banking house in Boston. Onecan picture the mental torture of the young man thus his novel. Galusha the Magnificent, Lincoln takes thetemperamental Galusha through tliis same experience. Laugh-able enough it seems as Lincoln writes it in the story, but itis doubtful if his own at!air seemed quite as humorous atthe time. After many months Lincoln escaped from th
Joseph Crosby Lincoln . em in navigation till they werereadj^ to command ships of theirown. But young Lincolns relatives had other plans for thought he would make a splendid financier and ar-ranged for him to enter a banking house in Boston. Onecan picture the mental torture of the young man thus his novel. Galusha the Magnificent, Lincoln takes thetemperamental Galusha through tliis same experience. Laugh-able enough it seems as Lincoln writes it in the story, but itis doubtful if his own at!air seemed quite as humorous atthe time. After many months Lincoln escaped from the figures andaccounts, and he confesses, I have always felt that they werefully as glad to get rid of me as I was to leave them. He knewby that time what he wanted to do. But it was not, dearreader, what you surmise. He wanted to be an artist. Howmany autliors have begun with the brush, later to discard it The old church tvhere Lincolnwas baptized looks much the sameas it did on that auspicious day JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN. for the pen! Eventually underthe guidance of Henry Sand-ham, whose signature was thefamiliar Hy, he went to Bos-ton, where he and a friend beganto do commercial work. Theyoung fellows were not over-whelmingly successful and oftento make a picture sell better hewrote a verse or a joke. Pres-ently he found that the versessold better without the began to write verses andshort stories in earnest—versesin swinging meter about the oldhome and the folks down on theCape—stories that revealed aquaint, witty and wholly delight-ful people. They were like abreath of invigorating salt air and the editors snapped themup with zest. His first short story Lincoln sold to the Saturday EveningPost; the succeeding ones landed in many other prominentmagazines. His verses appeared in Harpers Weekly, Puck,The Youths Cojupanion and other journals. About this time bicycling came into its heyday. TheLeague of American Wheelmen was a flourishing organiza-tion of several h
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