. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. g-field to see the street parade, which was to take place at 12oclock and also to see the show. So he started the nightbefore at 1 2 oclock with the mail and got to Salem at sun-rise the next morning. He went to the tavern to get hisbreakfast and have his horse fed and was told that Lincolnhad gone to the country the day
. Pioneers of Menard and Mason Counties; made up of personal reminiscences of an early life in Menard County, which we gathered in a Salem life from 1830 to 1840, and a Petersburg life from 1840 to 1850; including personal reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Peter Cartright. g-field to see the street parade, which was to take place at 12oclock and also to see the show. So he started the nightbefore at 1 2 oclock with the mail and got to Salem at sun-rise the next morning. He went to the tavern to get hisbreakfast and have his horse fed and was told that Lincolnhad gone to the country the day before to do some survey-ing and had not returned, and that Bill Berry, his partner,had been to a dance the night before. The dance did notbreak up till daylight and Bill was well nigh filled up withegguog and Ross feared that he would have some troublewaking him up to change the mail. After breakfast hefound Bill in a profound slumber in a little room adjoining Reminiscences of Lincoln 47 the pestoffice. For a half hour Ross pounded on the doorand veiled and shouted, but all in vain. It would have takenthe angel Gabriels trumpet to wake him up. So Ross threwhis mail bags across his horse and went on his journey. Heleft the mail that belong-ed to Salem at Sangamon and. LINCOLN MONUMENT AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL asked the postmaster to keep il until the next daw when hew i mid get it i m his return. I le hurried i m and g< »t t Springfield in tune t< i sLx- the parade. There was a mighty host of people in town who hadcome from far and near. Some had come twenty miles. 48 Reminiscences of Lincoln bringing their families with them. It was wonderful what anattraction a circus was. 1 have seen the Bottomites, as theywere called at Havana, commence gathering money a monthahead of a show. They would bring blackberries, or a loadof clapboards, or rails, or anything that would sell for would do without coffee, whisky or tobacco until theyhad enough money saved to go to the s
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