. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. man interest on the route where his companions saw noth-ing but commonplaces. He saw the ludicrous in an assem-blage of fowls, says H. C. Whitney, one of his fellow-itinerants, in a man spading his garden, in a clothes-line fullof clothes, in a group of boys, in a lot of pigs rooting at amill door, in a mother duck teaching her brood to swim—ineverything and anything. The sympathetic observationsof these long rides furnished humorous settings for some ofhis bes
. The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished. man interest on the route where his companions saw noth-ing but commonplaces. He saw the ludicrous in an assem-blage of fowls, says H. C. Whitney, one of his fellow-itinerants, in a man spading his garden, in a clothes-line fullof clothes, in a group of boys, in a lot of pigs rooting at amill door, in a mother duck teaching her brood to swim—ineverything and anything. The sympathetic observationsof these long rides furnished humorous settings for some ofhis best stories. If frequently on these trips he fell intosombre reveries and rode with head bent, ignoring his com-panions, generally he took part in all the frolicking whichwent on, joining in practical jokes, singing noisily with therest, sometimes even playing a Jews-harp. When the county-seat was reached, the bench and bar TRAVELLING ON THE CIRCUIT 243 quickly settled themselves in the town tavern. It was usuallya large two-story house with big rooms and long was little exclusiveness possible in these FACSIMILE OF MAP OF CIRCUIT WHICH LINCOLN TRAVELLED IN PRACTISING LAW, Ordinarily judge and lawyer slept two in a bed, and threeor four beds in a room. They ate at the common table withjurors, witnesses, prisoners out on bail, travelling peddlers, 244 LIFE OF LINCOLN teamsters, and laborers. The only attempt at classificationon the landlords part was seating the lawyers in a group atthe head of the table. Most of them accepted this distinctioncomplacently. Lincoln, however, seemed to be indifferent toit. One day, when he had come in and seated himself at thefoot with the fourth estate, the landlord called to him,Youre in the wrong place, Mr. Lincoln; come up here. Have you anything better to eat up there, Joe? he in-quired quizzically; if not, Ill stay here. The accommodations of the taverns were often imsatis-factory—the food poorly cooked, the beds
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