. Some successful Americans . d of a shirt of linsey-woolsey, a homespmi stuff madefrom a mixture of cotton and wool, colored, if at all, with dyes obtained from rootsand bark. He wore cow-hide boots or moccasins,deerskin leggins, a huntingshirt of the same material,and a ^coon-skin cap. Henever wore stockings untilhe was a man. Now thathe was strong enough towork he was put to suchtasks as bringing tools, car-rying water, dropping seeds,and picking berries. There was plenty of food,Half-Faced Camp such as it was. Game, fish, and wild fruits were to be had in abundance. The potatowas the only
. Some successful Americans . d of a shirt of linsey-woolsey, a homespmi stuff madefrom a mixture of cotton and wool, colored, if at all, with dyes obtained from rootsand bark. He wore cow-hide boots or moccasins,deerskin leggins, a huntingshirt of the same material,and a ^coon-skin cap. Henever wore stockings untilhe was a man. Now thathe was strong enough towork he was put to suchtasks as bringing tools, car-rying water, dropping seeds,and picking berries. There was plenty of food,Half-Faced Camp such as it was. Game, fish, and wild fruits were to be had in abundance. The potatowas the only vegetable raised to any considerable everyday bread in the Lincoln family was corndodger,wheat cakes being a dainty reserved for Sundays and spe-cial occasions. Food was prepared in the simplest way,owing to a lack of facilities, and the Lincolns were not theonly family who had none of our modern was no stove, the nearest approach to one beingthe Dutch oven. This, with an iron kettle, made up the. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 13 outfit of most kitchens, with the exception of an old pieceof tin punched full of holes to serve as a grater, or, as itwas then called, a ^^gritter. Sometimes it was used tomake corn meal, but this was a slow and laborious of the dishes were pewter; the spoons were iron; theknives had horn handles. The War of 1812 had just embargo act had destroyed commerce. Few thingswere manufactured in this country, and those imported weretoo expensive for the use of the common people. Thornswere used for pins, crusts of rye bread for coffee, leaves ofvarious herbs for tea, and corn whisky diluted with waterwas a common drink. During the summer of 1818 a mysterious disease calledthe ^^milk-sick broke out in Indiana. It seems to have beensomething like quick consumption. Many died of it, amongthe number the mother of Lincoln. There was no doctorin that distant wilderness to care for the sick, nor coulda minister be found to bur
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