The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE STATE-HOUSE AT VANDALIA, ILLINOIS—NOW USED AS A LINCOLNS SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS. RUNS FOR STATE ASSEMBLY 107 he needed it. Hannah Armstrong, the wife of the hero ofClarys Grove, made him one of her family. Abe wouldcome out to our house, she said, drink milk, eat mush,cornbread and butter, bring the children candy, and rock thecradle while I got him something to
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . THE STATE-HOUSE AT VANDALIA, ILLINOIS—NOW USED AS A LINCOLNS SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS. RUNS FOR STATE ASSEMBLY 107 he needed it. Hannah Armstrong, the wife of the hero ofClarys Grove, made him one of her family. Abe wouldcome out to our house, she said, drink milk, eat mush,cornbread and butter, bring the children candy, and rock thecradle while I got him something to eat. . Has stayedat our house two or three weeks at a time. Lincolns payfor his first piece of surveying came in the shape of two buck-skins, and it was Hannah who foxed them on his relations were equally friendly in the better homes ofthe community; even at the ministers, the Rev. John Cam-erons, he was perfectly at home, and Mrs. Cameron was byhim affectionately called Aunt Polly. It was not only hiskindly service which made Lincoln loved; it was his sym-pathetic comprehension of the lives and joys and sorrows andinterests of the people. Whether it was Jack Armstrong andhis wrestling, Hannah and her babies, Kelso and his fishingand poetry, the school-maste
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