. The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls . me it tookto make the journey, he had to give it up after a fewweeks and go to work. In these three schools he founda special interest in the reading-lessons, in the practiceof declaiming pieces on Friday afternoons, and inwriting compositions. One of his school-day writings wason National Politics and another was on Crueltyto Animals. Through the interest of an admiringneighbor, a third essay, on Temperance, was pub-lished in a newspaper. Reading intelligently, writinga clear hand, spelling fairly well, and making simplecalculations with figu
. The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls . me it tookto make the journey, he had to give it up after a fewweeks and go to work. In these three schools he founda special interest in the reading-lessons, in the practiceof declaiming pieces on Friday afternoons, and inwriting compositions. One of his school-day writings wason National Politics and another was on Crueltyto Animals. Through the interest of an admiringneighbor, a third essay, on Temperance, was pub-lished in a newspaper. Reading intelligently, writinga clear hand, spelling fairly well, and making simplecalculations with figures, — these, with a grotesque sortof training in etiquette, made up the boys it was not in the schools that he got his fellowship of trees and streams and of the gentlewild things of the woods, the companionship of boysand men, the pages of the Bible and ^sops Fablesand the half-dozen other books that he devoured bythe blaze of the fire, and the discipline of hard laborwith axe and plow, — these were his THE BOY LINCOLN READING BY THE LIGHT OF THE FIRE (After a paintiug by Eastman Johnson made in 1868) A STRANGE EDUCATION 23 In early days men traveled many miles to attendcourt, not because they bad business there, but becausethe coming of the judge and lawyers from near andfar brought into the life of the j^eople something thatwas unusual and often dramatic. To the court house atBoonville, the nearest county seat, lawyers sometimescame from as far away as Louisville to try their cases,to settle for all time the questions of property rights,or to defend men charged with crime. Witnesses wereexamined, and speeches made. In spite of the prohibi-tion of slavery in the constitution of Indiana, appealswere made to these courts to permit the holding ofnegro slaves in the State. To these meetings of the courtthe young man Lincoln walked through the woods fif-teen miles, whenever he could manage to get away fromhis work. And here he fed his fa
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