The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . , to preach the sermon andconduct the service which seemed to the child a necessaryhonor to the dead. As sad as the death of his mother wasthat of his only sister, Sarah. Married to Aaron Grigsby in1826, she had died a year and a half later in child-birth, adeath which to her brother must have seemed a horror and amystery. Apart from these family sorrows there was all the crimean
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . , to preach the sermon andconduct the service which seemed to the child a necessaryhonor to the dead. As sad as the death of his mother wasthat of his only sister, Sarah. Married to Aaron Grigsby in1826, she had died a year and a half later in child-birth, adeath which to her brother must have seemed a horror and amystery. Apart from these family sorrows there was all the crimeand misery of the community—all of which came to his earsand awakened his nature. He even saw in those days one ofhis companions go suddenly mad. The young man never re-covered his reason but sank into idiocy. All night he wouldcroon plaintive songs, and Lincoln himself tells how, fasci-nated by this mysterious malady, he used to rise before day. 28 LIFE OF LINCOLN light to cross the fields to listen to this funeral dirge of thereason. In spite of the poverty and rudeness of his life thedepths of his nature were unclouded. He could feel intensely,and his imagination was quick to respond to the touch i ^ ^ 0~^ 0- : w v uMim CHAPTER m ABRAHAM LINCOLNS EARLY OPPORTUNITIES THE BOOKS HE READ TRIPS TO NEW ORLEANS IMPRESSION HE MADE ON HIS FRIENDS With all his hard living and hard work, Lincoln was get-ting, in this period, a desultory kind of education. Not thathe received much schooling. He went to school by littles,he says; in all it did not amount to more than a year. And,if we accept his own description of the teachers, it was, per-haps, just as well that it was only by littles. No qualifica-tion was required of a teacher beyond readin, writin, andcipherin to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed toknow Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he waslooked upon as a wizard. But more or less of a school-roomis a matter of small importance if a boy has learne
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