From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death . Gordons. To the latterplace Abraham carried a grist one day, and safely tiedthe old mare while waiting for the grinding. Whenthe time came to start for home, he untied the mare,jumped on, and started the animal so suddenly with a cluck, and stroke of a stick, that she kicked furiously,and knocked him head over heels, from the cart to theground. He was picked up in a state of insensibility,the bystanders fearing that life was extinct. For sev-eral minutes he remained insensible, and w
From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death . Gordons. To the latterplace Abraham carried a grist one day, and safely tiedthe old mare while waiting for the grinding. Whenthe time came to start for home, he untied the mare,jumped on, and started the animal so suddenly with a cluck, and stroke of a stick, that she kicked furiously,and knocked him head over heels, from the cart to theground. He was picked up in a state of insensibility,the bystanders fearing that life was extinct. For sev-eral minutes he remained insensible, and when con-sciousness returned, he finished the cluck, that wasonly half uttered when the ugly beast knocked himover. Many years afterward, he had discussions withhis law partner at Springfield, 111., Mr. Herndon, as tothe psychological explanation of this remarkable phe-nomenon. One person remarked that it was anillustration of Abes perseverance — he always accom-plished what he undertook. The next chapter will disclose the manner in whichAbraham worked and studied, growing in knowledgeand popularity daily. CHAPTER X. WORKING AND WINNING. |HE reader should understand the societyin which Abraham mixed, in order to ap-preciate fully the elements of characterwhich enabled him to work and win fromfifteen to eighteen years of age. Mrs. Crawford, whomwe have already quoted, in a letter to Mr. Herndon,furnishes rather a vivid picture of the social state atthat time. She says : — You wish me to tell you how the people used togo to meeting,—how far they went. At that time wethought it nothing to go eight or ten miles. The oldladies did not stop for the want of a shawl, or cloak, orriding-dress, or two horses, in the winter time; butthey would put on their husbands old overcoats, andwrap up their little ones, and take one or two of themup on their beasts, and their husbands would walk,and they would go to church, and stay in the neighbor-hood until the next day, and then go home. The
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