. Lincoln, the patriot : a ready program for Lincoln's birthday. r, majestic ghost ! —Richard Watson Gilder. 5. Composition, The Boyhood of Lincoln.(The cabin in which Lincoln was born, February I2th, 1809, consisted of one room with a door butno window, and open cracks through which thewinds, rain, and snows of winter, and swarms ofmosquitoes in summer, could easily penetrate. Itwas the home on a clearing near Hodgensville, Ken-tucky, where Abrahams father had taken up land LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. for a farm. With his elder sister Abraham wentto school, and in order to study at night he tiedtoge
. Lincoln, the patriot : a ready program for Lincoln's birthday. r, majestic ghost ! —Richard Watson Gilder. 5. Composition, The Boyhood of Lincoln.(The cabin in which Lincoln was born, February I2th, 1809, consisted of one room with a door butno window, and open cracks through which thewinds, rain, and snows of winter, and swarms ofmosquitoes in summer, could easily penetrate. Itwas the home on a clearing near Hodgensville, Ken-tucky, where Abrahams father had taken up land LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. for a farm. With his elder sister Abraham wentto school, and in order to study at night he tiedtogether spicewood bushes and burned them forlight. His mother taught him all she knew of theBible, fairy tales, and country legends. Moving toan uncleared tract in Indiana in 1816, young Abra-ham was set to work to clear a field for corn, andto help in the home building. Besides his ownfarm work, carpentry, and cabinet-making, he wasa hired boy on neighboring farms, where he re-ceived twenty-five cents a day. As a ferryman on Copyright, 1896, by The Century From Century Book of Famous Americans. By permission of the Cen»tury Company. the Mississippi, going to and from New Orleans,Lincoln gained his earliest experiences of life. Hisentire reading as a boy—not books of his own—werethe Bible, yEsops Fables, Robinson Crusoe,Pilgrims Progress, a History of the UnitedStates, Weemss Life of Washington, and the Statutes of Indiana. He pored over the biographyof the First President with astonishing fervor, andmany years afterwards, when addressing the Senateof New Jersey at Trenton, referred to the impres-sion it had made upon him. I remember, he said, all the accounts given of the battle-fields and stru£-gles for the liberties of the country, and none fixed LINCOLN THE PATRIOT. 5 themselves upon my imagination so deeply as thestruggle here at Trenton. The crossing of theriver, the contest with the Hessians, the greathardships endured at that time, all fixed themselveson my me
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