The beginner's American history . asts. When the men got tiredof work and wanted a frolic, they had a grand , a tall pole was set up in a clearing ^; next, thehunters in the woods formed a great circle of perhapsten miles in extent. Then they began to move nearerand nearer together, beating the bushes and yelling with all their might. The frightenedwolves, deer, and other wild crea-tures inside of the circle of hun-ters were driven to the pole inthe clearing; there they wereshot down in heaps. Young Lincoln was not muchof a hunter, but he always triedto do his part. Yet, after a
The beginner's American history . asts. When the men got tiredof work and wanted a frolic, they had a grand , a tall pole was set up in a clearing ^; next, thehunters in the woods formed a great circle of perhapsten miles in extent. Then they began to move nearerand nearer together, beating the bushes and yelling with all their might. The frightenedwolves, deer, and other wild crea-tures inside of the circle of hun-ters were driven to the pole inthe clearing; there they wereshot down in heaps. Young Lincoln was not muchof a hunter, but he always triedto do his part. Yet, after all,he liked the axe better thanhe did the rifle. He wouldstart off before light in themorning and walk to his workin the woods, five or six milesaway. There he would chopsteadily all day. The neighborsknew, when they hired him,that he wouldnt sit down on the first log he came toand fall asleep. Once when he needed a new pair oftrousers, he made a bargain for them with a Mrs. NancyMiller. She agreed to make him a certain number of. Lincoln splitting Logs for Rails. Clearing: an open space made in a forest. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 205 yards of tow cloth,^ and dye it brown with walnut every yard she made, Lincoln bound himself to splitfour hundred good fence-rails for her. In this way hemade his axe pay for all his clothes. 251. Lincoln hires out to tend store; the g^mg of ruffiansin New Salem; Jack Armstrong and Tall Abe. — The yearafter young Lincoln came of age he hired out to tend agrocery and variety store in New Salem, Illinois.^ Therewas a gang of young ruffians in that neighborhood whomade it a point to pick a fight with every stranger. Some-times they mauled him black and blue; sometimes theyamused themselves with nailing him up in a hogsheadand rolling him down a hill. The leader of this gangwas a fellow named Jack Armstrong. He made up hismind that he would try his hand on Tall Abe, as Lin-coln was called. He attacked Lincoln, and he was soastonished at what happene
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