The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE. A secluded part of Little Pigeon Creek, not far from Gentryville, where LincolnDennis Hanks, John Johnston, the Gentry boys, and others of the neighborhood,Used to bathe. It is still pointed out as the place where Abe went in BUCKTHORN VALLEY, WHE iD AND HUNTED. In this valley are located nearly all the farms on which Lincoln worked in hiaboyhood
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE. A secluded part of Little Pigeon Creek, not far from Gentryville, where LincolnDennis Hanks, John Johnston, the Gentry boys, and others of the neighborhood,Used to bathe. It is still pointed out as the place where Abe went in BUCKTHORN VALLEY, WHE iD AND HUNTED. In this valley are located nearly all the farms on which Lincoln worked in hiaboyhood, including the famous Crawford place, where he and his sister Sarah wereboth employed as help. Visitors to the locality have pointed out to them num-berless items associated with his early life—fields he helped to clear and till, fenceshe built, houses he repaired, wells he dug, paths he walked, playgrounds he fre-quented. Indeed, the inhabitants of Buckthorn Valley take the greatest pride, andvery properly, in Linclolns connection with it. EARLY OPPORTUNITIES 43 tor. By the time he was twenty-one, in fact, his mind waswell stored with verse and prose. All of his comrades remembered his stories and his clear-ness in argument. When he appeared in company, saysNat Grigsby, the boys would gather and cluster around himto hear him talk. Mr. Lincoln was figurative in his speech,talks, and conversation. He argued much from analogy,and explained things hard for us to un
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