In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . long way, elder, before you find any people of thatkind, Injuns or white folks. I know. I havent lived fiftyyears in this troublesome world for nothin. People who liveup in the air, as you do, elder, have to come down. Im mean well! Johnnie Kongapod arose, lifted his brown arm silently, and, bending his earnest face on Jasper, said: 7 86 IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. That story is true. You will know. Time tells the ! Return in the morning to be shot! said Aunt Olive. Injuns dont do that
In the boyhood of Lincoln; a tale of the Tunker schoolmaster and the times of Black Hawk . long way, elder, before you find any people of thatkind, Injuns or white folks. I know. I havent lived fiftyyears in this troublesome world for nothin. People who liveup in the air, as you do, elder, have to come down. Im mean well! Johnnie Kongapod arose, lifted his brown arm silently, and, bending his earnest face on Jasper, said: 7 86 IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. That story is true. You will know. Time tells the ! Return in the morning to be shot! said Aunt Olive. Injuns dont do that way here. When I started for InjiauyI was told of a mother-in-law who was so good that all herdaughters husbands asked her to come and live with said she moved to Injiany. Now, I have traveled aboutthis State to all the camp-meetins, and I never found heranywhere. Stands to reason that no such story as that is have to travel a long way, elder, before you find anypeople of that kind in these parts. Whom was Jasper to believe—the confident Indian or thepioneers ?. CHAPTER YII. THE EXAMINATION AT CRAWFORDS SCHOOL. XAMINATI ON-DAY is an important time incountry schools, and it excited more interestseventy years ago than now. Andrew Crawfordwas always ambitious that this day should docredit to his faithful work, and his pupilscaught his inspiration. There were great preparations for the examination at Craw-fords this spring. The appearance of the German school-master in the place who could read Latin was an event. Yearsafter, when the pure gold ot fame was no longer a glimmeringvision or a current of fate, but a wonderful fact, AbrahamLincoln wrote of such visits as Jaspers in the settlement acurious sentence in an odd hand in an autobiography, which wereproduce here: With such a wizard as Jasper in the settlement, whowould certainly attend the examination, it is no wonder that (87) 88 IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. this special event excited the greatest interes
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