. Abraham Lincoln, his story. Lincolns Birthplace, near Hodgexville, II! \V 11 - - ) It. Frurii phutoyraph taken in 1S61. THE BOY 17 and killed one of them. He has never sincepulled trigger on any larger game. The cabin had no window other than thelarge cracks which he mentions, nor any doorto shut out the sleet and snow which driftedin through the doorway. The bare earth whichserved for a floor turned to mud during thewinter thaws. The little boys bed was a heapof loose leaves in a loft, which he reached byclimbing up on pegs driven into the wall. Some-times the family h
. Abraham Lincoln, his story. Lincolns Birthplace, near Hodgexville, II! \V 11 - - ) It. Frurii phutoyraph taken in 1S61. THE BOY 17 and killed one of them. He has never sincepulled trigger on any larger game. The cabin had no window other than thelarge cracks which he mentions, nor any doorto shut out the sleet and snow which driftedin through the doorway. The bare earth whichserved for a floor turned to mud during thewinter thaws. The little boys bed was a heapof loose leaves in a loft, which he reached byclimbing up on pegs driven into the wall. Some-times the family had nothing to eat but roastpotatoes, and a neighbor remembers thatpeeled, sliced raw potatoes were passed aroundfor dessert. Sometimes on cold days the chil-dren would carry a hot roast potato with themon their way to school to keep their handswarm. They were pretty pinching times,wrote Abraliam Lincoln in after years. In 1818, when Abraham was nine years old,a mysterious disease nearly wiped out thesmall community at Little Pigeon Creek. Itwas called the milk-sick and
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