In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . ennsylvania, and met the Brethren there who hadcome from Germany, and then traveled with an Indian agentto Rock Island, Illinois, where he had met Black Hawk. Herehe resolved to become a traveling teacher, preacher, and mis-sionary, after the usages of his order, and he asked BlackHawk for an interpreter and guide. Return to me in May, said the chief, and I will pro-vide you with as noble a son of the forest as ever breathedthe air. He returned to Ohio, and was now on his way to visit theold chief again.
In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . ennsylvania, and met the Brethren there who hadcome from Germany, and then traveled with an Indian agentto Rock Island, Illinois, where he had met Black Hawk. Herehe resolved to become a traveling teacher, preacher, and mis-sionary, after the usages of his order, and he asked BlackHawk for an interpreter and guide. Return to me in May, said the chief, and I will pro-vide you with as noble a son of the forest as ever breathedthe air. He returned to Ohio, and was now on his way to visit theold chief again. The country was a wonder to him. Coming from middleGermany and the Rhine lands, everything seemed vast andlimitless* The prairies with their bluebells, the prairie islandswith their giant trees, the forests that shaded the streams, wereall like a legend, a fairy story, a dream. He admired theheroic spirit of the pioneers, and he took the Indians to hisheart. In this spirit he began to travel over the unbrokenprairies of Indiana and Illinois. CHAPTER 11. THOMAS LINCOLNS FAMILY HE red sun was glimmering through the leaflessboughs of the great oaks when Jasper againcame to the gate of Thomas Lincolns log cab-in. Mr. Crawford had remained after schoolAvith the tall boy who had brought obliquity upon the spelling-class. Tradition reports that there was agreat rattling of leather breeches, and expostulations, and la-mentations at such solemn, private interviews. Mr. Crawford,who was great on thrashing, no doubt did his duty as heunderstood it at that private session at sundown. Sticks wereplenty in those days, and the will to use them strong amongmost pioneer schoolmasters. Abraham Lincoln and his sister accompanied Jasper to thelog-house. They heard the lusty cry for consideration andmercy in the log school-house as they were going, and stoppedto listen. Jasper did not approve of this rugged discipline. I should not treat the boy in that way, said he philo-sophically. You
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