. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ncoln start-ed for Washington, to beinaugurated, the inauguraladdress was placed in a spe-cial satchel and guarded. with special care. At Harris-burg the satchel was given incharge of Robert T. Lin-coln, who accompanied hisfather. Before the trainstarted from Harrisburg theprecious satchel was miss-ing. Robert thought hehad given it to a waiter atthe hotel, but a long searchfailed to reveal the missingsatchel with its preciousdocum
. "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller [excerpts]. ncoln start-ed for Washington, to beinaugurated, the inauguraladdress was placed in a spe-cial satchel and guarded. with special care. At Harris-burg the satchel was given incharge of Robert T. Lin-coln, who accompanied hisfather. Before the trainstarted from Harrisburg theprecious satchel was miss-ing. Robert thought hehad given it to a waiter atthe hotel, but a long searchfailed to reveal the missingsatchel with its preciousdocument. Lincoln was an-noyed, angry, and finally indespair. He felt certain that the address was lost beyond recovery, and, as it only lacked ten days untilthe inauguration, he had no time to prepare another. He had not even pre-served the notes from which the original copy had been written. Mr. Lincoln went to Ward Lamon, his former law partner, then oneof his body-guards, and informed him of the loss in the following words: Lamon, I guess I have lost my certificate of moral character, writtenby myself. Bob has lost my gripsack containing my inaugural YARNS AND STORIES. 121 with care through several campaigns. A stray bullet, just missing thedrinkers head, dashed the mug into fragments and left only the handle onhis finger. Turning his head in that direction, he scowled, Johnny, youcant do that again! BAD TIME FOR A BARBECUE. Captain T. W. S. Kidd of Springfield was the crier of the court in thedays when Mr. Lincoln used to ride the circuit. I was younger than he, says Captain Kidd, but he had a sort of admira-tion for me, and never failed to get me into his stories. I was a story-teller myself in those days, and he usedto laugh very heartily at some ofthe stories I told him. Now and then he got meinto a good deal of trouble. Iwas a Democrat, and was in pol-itics more or less. A good manyof our Democratic voters atthat time were Irishmen. Theycame to Illinois in the day
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