From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death . spellin, when we would choose up, andspell every Friday night. Here, Abrahams school-days ended; and all hisschooling amounted to less than one year. Neverthe- A NEW MOTHER AND SCHOOLS. 119 less, according to David Turnham, he completelydrained his teachers. We have his word for it, that Abe beat all his masters, and it was no use for himto try to learn any more from them. We may add, in closing this chapter, that about thistime, Levi Hall, a relative of the Lincolns, removed fromKen
From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death . spellin, when we would choose up, andspell every Friday night. Here, Abrahams school-days ended; and all hisschooling amounted to less than one year. Neverthe- A NEW MOTHER AND SCHOOLS. 119 less, according to David Turnham, he completelydrained his teachers. We have his word for it, that Abe beat all his masters, and it was no use for himto try to learn any more from them. We may add, in closing this chapter, that about thistime, Levi Hall, a relative of the Lincolns, removed fromKentucky with his family, and settled near John Hanks, cousin of the first Mrs. Lincoln, andson of Joseph Hanks of Elizabethtown, of whom TomLincoln learned the carpenters trade, came to live withthe latter. John had no education ; could neither readnor write; but he was a temperate, upright, truthfulman, without a particle of Abrahams wit, and none ofhis extreme awkwardness. He lived four years withMr. Lincoln; then returned to Kentucky; whence heremoved to Illinois, where we shall meet him CHAPTER , AND WHAT CAME OF IT. HE greatest man that ever lived! saidAbraham, as he sat upon a log in thewoods, conversing with David Turnham. This country has a right to be proud ofWashington. That is your opinion; but I guess the Britishwont say so, answered David. And that is just because they were whipped byhim ; and they dont want to own up. How do you know so much about Washington,Abe? Because I have read about him, and I alwaysheard that he made the red-coats run for life. Who do you mean by the red-coats ? Why, the British, to be sure. They were calledred-coats, because they wore coats of that color. Iexpect that they looked splendidly, though they did ntfeel very splendidly, I guess, after they got whipped. Have you read the Life of Washington? Of course I have, a good while ago. I read Ram-says Life of Washington, and that shows that he wasthe greatest ma
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