Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . han was needed to form ahammer. Again he heated it, and thought he wouldmake an axe. After hammering and welding it intoshape, knocking the oxydized iron off in flakes, heconcluded there was not enough of the iron left tomake an axe that would be of any use. He was nowgetting tired and a little disgusted at the result ofhis various essays. So he filled his forge full of coal,and, after placing the iron in the center of the heap,took the bellows and worked up a tremendous blast,bringing the iron to a white heat. Then with his
Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . han was needed to form ahammer. Again he heated it, and thought he wouldmake an axe. After hammering and welding it intoshape, knocking the oxydized iron off in flakes, heconcluded there was not enough of the iron left tomake an axe that would be of any use. He was nowgetting tired and a little disgusted at the result ofhis various essays. So he filled his forge full of coal,and, after placing the iron in the center of the heap,took the bellows and worked up a tremendous blast,bringing the iron to a white heat. Then with his 4 REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN tongs he lifted it from the bed of coals, and thrust-ing it into a tub of water near by, exclaimed with anoath, Well, if I cant make anything else of you, Iwill make a fizzle, anyhow. I replied that I was afraid that was about whatwe had done with the Dutch Gap Canal. ULYSSES S. GRANT. ilflMllllllMUll, „J ill iiiii,i I t^iimafl^^ mm rii^i ),,,,l,\ I 1 I III I ?mil iiiliii . 11 I |illi]il;il|ir l^lll :!i f^m iiIll i ;iiiPi. II. Elihu B. Washburne. MR. LINCOLN was nearly eight years mysenior, and settled in Illinois ten years beforeI did. We first find him in the State splitting railswith Thomas Hanks, in Macon County, in 1830. Notlong afterward he made his way to New Salem, anunimportant and insignificant village on the Sanga-mon River, in the northern part of SangamonCounty, fourteen miles from Springfield. In 1839a flew county was laid off, named Menard, in honorof the first lieutenant-governor of the State, a FrenchCanadian, an early settler of the State and a manwhose memory is held in reverence by the people ofIllinois, for his enterprise, benevolence and the ad-mirable personal traits which adorned his distinguished and wealthy citizen of St. Louis,allied to him by marriage, Mr. Charles Pierre Chou-teau, is now erecting a monument to him, to beplaced in the State-house grounds at settlement of New Salem,
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