The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . Abe Lincoln. So often did he spell the school downthat finally, tradition says, he was no longer allowed to takepart in the matches. Very many of his old neighbors recalled his reading habitsand how well stored his mind was with information. Hisexplanations of natural phenomena were so unfamiliar tohis companions that he sometimes was jeered at for them, 42 LIFE OF LINCOLN • thou
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . Abe Lincoln. So often did he spell the school downthat finally, tradition says, he was no longer allowed to takepart in the matches. Very many of his old neighbors recalled his reading habitsand how well stored his mind was with information. Hisexplanations of natural phenomena were so unfamiliar tohis companions that he sometimes was jeered at for them, 42 LIFE OF LINCOLN • though as a rule his listeners were sympathetic, taking acertain pride in the fact that one of their number knew asmuch as Lincoln did. He was better read than the worldknows or is likely to know exactly, said one old acquaint-ance. He often and often commented or talked to me aboutwhat he had read—seemed to read it out of the book as hewent along—did so with others. He was the learned boyamong us unlearned folks. He took great pains to explain;could do it so simply. He was diffident, then, too. One man was impressed by the character of the sentencesLincoln had given him for a copybook. It was considered at. FACSIMILE OF LINES FROM LINCOLNS COPY BOOK. that time, said he, that Abe was the best penman in theneighborhood. One day, While he was on a visit at mymothers, I asked him to write some copies for me. He verywillingly consented. He wrote several of them, but one ofthem I have never forgotten, although a boy at that time. Itwas this: Good boys who to their books applyWill all be great men by and by. His wonderful memory was recalled by many. To savethat which he found to his liking in the books he borrowedLincoln committed much to memory. He knew many longpoems, and most of the selections in the Kentucky Precep-
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