The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . Birch bark with hickory bark soles,strapped on over yarn socks, beat buckskinall holler, fur snow. Abe n me got purtyhandy contrivin things that way. An Abewas right out in the woods, about as soonshe was weaned, fishin in the crick, settinDennis Hanks, Lincolns cousin traps fur rabbits an muskrats, goin on and playmate, 1 •, ?> rr* > » , i i coon-hunts with lorn an me an the dogs,follerin up bees to find bee trees, an drappin corn fur his mtevesUn life fur
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . Birch bark with hickory bark soles,strapped on over yarn socks, beat buckskinall holler, fur snow. Abe n me got purtyhandy contrivin things that way. An Abewas right out in the woods, about as soonshe was weaned, fishin in the crick, settinDennis Hanks, Lincolns cousin traps fur rabbits an muskrats, goin on and playmate, 1 •, ?> rr* > » , i i coon-hunts with lorn an me an the dogs,follerin up bees to find bee trees, an drappin corn fur his mtevesUn life fur a boy, but thar was a good many chanceshe wouldnt live to grow up. Lincolns Boyhood, Eleanor Atkinson. The American Magazine, Vol. LXV, February, 1908, page360. The Little Boys First Teachers When the little boy was about four years old the first realexcitement of his life occurred. His father moved from the farm onNolen Creek to another some fifteen miles northeast on Knob Creek,and here the child began to go to school. At that day the schoolsin the West were usually accidental, depending upon the coming of. FIRST SEVEN YEARS IN KENTUCKY 25 some poor and ambitious young man who was willing to teach afew terms while he looked for an opening to something better. Theterms were irregular, their length being decided by the time thesettlers felt able to board the master and pay his small salary. Thechief qualifications for a schoolmaster seem to have been enoughstrength to keep the big boys in order, though one high inauthority affirms that pluck went for a heap sight moren sinnoowith boys. . . Lincolns first teacher, Zachariah Riney, was a Catholic. Ofhis second teacher, Caleb Hazel, we know even less than of Gollaher says that Abraham Lincoln, in those days when he washis schoolmate, was an unusually bright boy at school, and madesplendid progress in his studies. Indeed, he learned faster thanany of his schoolmates. Though so young, he studied very would get s
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