The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . re of the second Mrs. was probably in the win-ter of 1819-20, she havingcome out in December, has been seen that shewas as much impressed byhis mental precocity asby the good qualities of hisheart. . The next teacher was An-drew Crawford. Mrs. Gentrysays he began as pedagoguein the neighborhood in thewinter of 1822-3, whilst mostof his other scholars are un-able to fix the exact kept in the same littleschoolhouse which had been the scene of Dorseys l
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . re of the second Mrs. was probably in the win-ter of 1819-20, she havingcome out in December, has been seen that shewas as much impressed byhis mental precocity asby the good qualities of hisheart. . The next teacher was An-drew Crawford. Mrs. Gentrysays he began as pedagoguein the neighborhood in thewinter of 1822-3, whilst mostof his other scholars are un-able to fix the exact kept in the same littleschoolhouse which had been the scene of Dorseys labors, andthe windows were still adorned with the greased leaves of oldcopybooks that had come down from Dorseys time. Abe was nowin his fifteenth year, and began to exhibit symptoms of gallantrytoward the weaker sex, as we shall presently discover. He wasgrowing at a tremendous rate, and two years later attained his fullheight of six feet four inches. He was long, wiry and strong;while his big feet and hands, and the length of his legs and arms,were out of all proportion to his small trunk and head. His com-. Sarah Bush Lincoln, Abrahams stepmother. 44 THE STORY-LIFE OF LINCOLN plexion was very swarthy, and Mrs. Gentry says that his skin wasshriveled and yellow even then. He wore low shoes, buckskinbreeches, linsey-woolsey shirt, and a cap made of the skin of anopossum or a coon. The breeches clung close to his thighs and legs,but failed by a large space to meet the top of his shoes. Twelveinches remained uncovered, and exposed that much of shin-bone,sharp, blue and narrow. He would always come to school thus,good-humoredly and laughing, says his old friend, Nat Grigsby. He was always in good health, never was sick, had an excellentconstitution. Crawford taught manners. This was a feature of back-woods education to which Dorsey had not aspired, and Crawfordhad doubtless introduced it as a refinement which would put toshame the humbler efforts of his predecessor. One of the sch
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