. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. d it was feared his force would be cap-tured by the Confederates. The President heard the report read by theoperator, as it came over the wire, and remarked: Once there was a manout West who was headinga barrel, as they used to callit. He worked like a goodfellow in driving down thehoops, but just about thetime he thought he had thejob done, the head wouldfall in. Then he had to dothe work all over again. All at once a bright ideae
. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. d it was feared his force would be cap-tured by the Confederates. The President heard the report read by theoperator, as it came over the wire, and remarked: Once there was a manout West who was headinga barrel, as they used to callit. He worked like a goodfellow in driving down thehoops, but just about thetime he thought he had thejob done, the head wouldfall in. Then he had to dothe work all over again. All at once a bright ideaentered his brain, and hewondered how it was hehadnt figured it out boy, a bright, smart lad,was standing by, very much in-terested in the business, and,lifting the young one up, heput him inside the barrel,telling him to hold the headin its proper place, while hepounded down the hoopson the sides. This workedlike a charm, and he soon had the heading done. Then he realized that his boy was inside the barrel, and how to get himout he couldnt for his life figure out. General Blank is now inside the barrel,headed in, and the job now is to get him YARNS AND STORIES. 211 THE CABINET WAS A-SETTIN. Being- in Washington one day, the Rev. Robert Collyer thought hedtake a look around. In passing through the grounds surrounding the White House, he cast aglance toward the Presiden-tial residence, and was aston-ished to see three pairs of feetresting on the ledge of anopen window in one of theapartments of the secondstory. The divine paused fora moment, calmly surveyedthe unique spectacle, andthen resumed his walk to-ward the War a la-borer atwork not farfrom the Ex-ecutive Man-s i o n, himw h a t i t a 11mean t. Towhom didthe feet be-long, and, particularly, the mammoth ones? You old fool answered theworkman, thats the Cabinet, which is a-settin, an them thar big feetbelongs to Old Abe.
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