. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 211 LESSON.—Lincoln had to work hard, but studied every spare father moved to Illinois. As farmer, storekeeper, surveyor, lawyer,he became popular, and was sent to the Legislature and to Congress. was anxious to learn all he could, and, after he once knew hisletters and the nine digits, he read and studied and cipheredevery spare minute he could find, A board served as a slate,and a burnt stick as a pencil, but he got along better withthese than some of us do with our nice slates and pencils an
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 211 LESSON.—Lincoln had to work hard, but studied every spare father moved to Illinois. As farmer, storekeeper, surveyor, lawyer,he became popular, and was sent to the Legislature and to Congress. was anxious to learn all he could, and, after he once knew hisletters and the nine digits, he read and studied and cipheredevery spare minute he could find, A board served as a slate,and a burnt stick as a pencil, but he got along better withthese than some of us do with our nice slates and pencils andcopy books and pens. By and by his mother died, and his stepmother did all shecould to help him in his studies, while his father gave himwork enough to keep him busy. And so between his booksand his plow and plane, he grew to be six feet four inchestall, with a mind that fitted his great awkward body. The family then moved into Illinois, and for a third timebuilt their log-cabin home. But Abraham was then twenty-one years old, and began to work for himself. He labo
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