. Lincoln, the lawyer. and had kept inintimate touch with its proceedings. Life at Gentryville, Indiana, with its dull,trivial round of hard labor at delving, grubbing,corn-shucking, rail-splitting, and the like, couldnot have been exhilarating. Doubtless it was ahappy enough life for an easy-going, good-hu-mored, healthy, growing boy; but he would havebeen stupid, indeed, if he had not availed himselfof such amusements as the neighborhood af-forded, and the one great diversion and intellec-tual stimulant of the community came throughthe sessions of the Boonville court. Boonvillewas fully fift
. Lincoln, the lawyer. and had kept inintimate touch with its proceedings. Life at Gentryville, Indiana, with its dull,trivial round of hard labor at delving, grubbing,corn-shucking, rail-splitting, and the like, couldnot have been exhilarating. Doubtless it was ahappy enough life for an easy-going, good-hu-mored, healthy, growing boy; but he would havebeen stupid, indeed, if he had not availed himselfof such amusements as the neighborhood af-forded, and the one great diversion and intellec-tual stimulant of the community came throughthe sessions of the Boonville court. Boonvillewas fully fifteen miles from Gentry-ville, but people often traveled farther than thatto attend the civil and criminal trials at thecounty-seat. Every term of the court, of course,meant a market; and the pioneers looked forwardto the coming of the circuit judge, not only be-cause it promised entertainment, but also forbusiness reasons. The court was their theater, their lecture-plat-form, their common meeting-place, their center 14. These books, from left to right, are Religious Truth Illustrated from Science —Hitch-cock ; Gibbons Rome, 4 vols.; Dictionary of Congress —Lanman ; Paleys Works; Angell on Limitations; The Republican Party —Sumner, i860; The Illinois Convey-ancer, and A Dictionary of Primary Schools
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