. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ack upon another. The latter, indefending himself, gave the other muchthe worst of the encounter. The aggres-^V;^sor, to get even, had the one who thrashed j^him tried in our Circuit Court on a charge (^of an assault and battery. Mr. Lincolndefended, and told the jury that his clientwas in the fix of a man who, in goingalong the highway with a pitchfork onhis shoulder, was attacked by a fierce dogthat ran out at him from a farmers
. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ack upon another. The latter, indefending himself, gave the other muchthe worst of the encounter. The aggres-^V;^sor, to get even, had the one who thrashed j^him tried in our Circuit Court on a charge (^of an assault and battery. Mr. Lincolndefended, and told the jury that his clientwas in the fix of a man who, in goingalong the highway with a pitchfork onhis shoulder, was attacked by a fierce dogthat ran out at him from a farmers door-yard. In parrying ofT the brute with thefork, its prongs stuck into the brute andkilled him. What made you kill my dog? saidthe farmer. What made him try to biteme? But why did you not go at himwith the other end of the pitchfork? Why did he not come after me withhis other end? At this Mr. Lincoln whirled aboutin his long arms an imaginary dog. andpushed its tail end toward the jury. Thiswas the defensive plea of son assaultdemesne—loosely, that the other fellow brought on the fight/—quicklytold, and in a way the dullest mind would grasp and YARNS AND STORIES. 95 summer days, when the farmers were busy with their crops, my customerswere few and far between. The more I read-—this he said with unusualemphasis—the more intensely interested I became. Never in my whole lifewas my mind so thoroughly absorbed. I read until I devoured them. A JOB FOR THE NEW CABINETMAKER. This cartoon, labeled A Job for the New Cabinetmaker, was printed inFrank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper on February 2d, 1861, a monthand two days before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated President of theUnited States. The South-ern states had seceded fromthe Union, the Confederacywas established, with Jeffer-son Davis as its President,the Union had been split intwo, and the task Lincolnhad before him was to gluethe two parts of the Repub-Uc together. In his famousspeech, deHvered a shorttime before
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