A first book in American history with European beginnings . raham Bell invented the electric telephone, firstoperated in 1876. \ I XXXIII ABRAHAM LINCOLN BEFORE 1861 LINCOLNS BIRTHPLACE On the roughly built bed over in the corner two littlechildren lie asleep. Before the open fireplace the motherand father talk together in low tones. It is winter, and outside a storm is raging. Fromtime to time the wind beats with added fury against the lonely Kentucky logcabin. As its icybreath comes throughthe cracks betweenthe logs, the mothershivers; and crossingto the bed she tucksthe patchwork quiltclose
A first book in American history with European beginnings . raham Bell invented the electric telephone, firstoperated in 1876. \ I XXXIII ABRAHAM LINCOLN BEFORE 1861 LINCOLNS BIRTHPLACE On the roughly built bed over in the corner two littlechildren lie asleep. Before the open fireplace the motherand father talk together in low tones. It is winter, and outside a storm is raging. Fromtime to time the wind beats with added fury against the lonely Kentucky logcabin. As its icybreath comes throughthe cracks betweenthe logs, the mothershivers; and crossingto the bed she tucksthe patchwork quiltcloser about her chil-dren and spreads anextra deerskin overthem. A smaller skin, which is the only cover for the window,is flapping, letting in the cold. This then must be fastenedbetter; and while she is about it, the mother looks to seeif the doorway is covered as tightly as it can be. Surethat all is now secure she comes back to the fire and sitsdown on one of the wooden blocks that serve as a stranger this might seem a poor little place, with324. Where Lincoln was Born. ABRAHAM LINCOLN BEFORE 1861 only the hard earth for a floor and only one room to holdthe bed, the board table, the wooden bench, the shelf fordishes, and even the old Dutch oven. But to Thomasand Nancy Lincoln it is home, and they are happy in it is cold on a winters night—summer will sooncome again, bringing warmth, sunshine, and a free out-of-door life. Suppose their bread is made from corn meal, andpotatoes are about the only vegetable they have—there isalways plenty of venison, and other game, or fish, to beboiled in the great iron pot, or broiled over the hot might be much worse. The Lincolns life isthe life of those about them, and they are content in theirlittle log cabin, the birthplace of their boy Abraham. LINCOLN THE BOY Abraham was four years old on the 12th of February1813. Within a few months after that date, his fathersold the farm where the boy was born and m
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