The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. In the autumn of 1S16, Thomas Lincoln, with the slight assistancelittle Abe could give him, felled the logs and raised a more substantial cabin. In the fall of i<Sig Thomas Lincoln went off, leaving the children to takecare of themselves, and they heard nothing of him until one morning early inDecember the wanderer returned with a second wife, a Mrs. Sally was known to the children in Kentucky, so they warmly welcomed her a
The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. In the autumn of 1S16, Thomas Lincoln, with the slight assistancelittle Abe could give him, felled the logs and raised a more substantial cabin. In the fall of i<Sig Thomas Lincoln went off, leaving the children to takecare of themselves, and they heard nothing of him until one morning early inDecember the wanderer returned with a second wife, a Mrs. Sally was known to the children in Kentucky, so they warmly welcomed her andwere good friends immediately. Of Abraham, the new mother said, in afteryears, He ne\-er gave me a cross word and never refused to do anything I ABRAHAM LINCOLN 5 asked of him ; and of her, Abraham said, She was a noble woman, affection-ate, good and kind woman, as I remember women in those days. She gave Abe new clothes and taught him how to make the best and dothe most witli the few things he had, and encouraged him to read and got hold of a volume of Coopers Leather Stocking Tales and a volume. The Boy Lincoln Studying of Burnss poems. He would read them over and over again in his favoriteposition, outstretched on the floor, his head on his hands. Once he borrowed a book from an old farmer. It was a life of GeorgeWashington. For security it was kept between the logs of his cabin home, butone day the rain soaked in and spoiled the book. He took it to the farmerand asked how he could pay for it. Wall, said the old farmer, I guess taint much account to me now. Youhaul fodder for three days and the book is yours. So thats the way 3roung Abe earned his first book, and in the fields or onthe wood-pile when not working he might ever be seen, book in hand, reading. But for all his love of reading he was the strongest boy in all the country 6 THE HEROIC LH^E OF round, and although not quarrelsome he could throw any boy in the neighbor-hood. He was the champion wrestler, an
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