. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ery time I come to that part where poor Nolan tried to read thepoem. And so you can connect that poem with Lincoln after all, Uncle Tom,said Roger. I never saw such a man. We cant down you, can we? I in in Lincolns country, you see, Roger, said Uncle Tom, with alaugh, and nothing could ever down him. So it must be in the air, eh? Go on with the short and simple annals of the poor, Uncle Tom, saidBert, reverting, as usual, to the main topic. Well, began his uncle, you saw, back in Kentucky, the


. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . ery time I come to that part where poor Nolan tried to read thepoem. And so you can connect that poem with Lincoln after all, Uncle Tom,said Roger. I never saw such a man. We cant down you, can we? I in in Lincolns country, you see, Roger, said Uncle Tom, with alaugh, and nothing could ever down him. So it must be in the air, eh? Go on with the short and simple annals of the poor, Uncle Tom, saidBert, reverting, as usual, to the main topic. Well, began his uncle, you saw, back in Kentucky, the little streamon the banks of which Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12th of February,1809. It is near to what is now the village of Hodgensville; but there wasno village thereabouts when Lincoln was a boy. Indeed, I doubt if we haveseen, in all our travels,ranch, hut, or cabin hum-bler or meaner than themiserable little hovel inwhich was born the great-est President of theseUnited States. It wouldbe hard for me to tell youthe real facts. You wouldthink I was overstrainingthe case just for


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