. Highways and byways of the South. l exists,but it has not occupied its original site for a long the pasture it was moved about a mile towardHodgensville, and rebuilt on a bank close beside thehighway. The farmer who last lived in it told me hesold it to a Northern man for enough to erect himselfa good frame house, and he thought he got the bestof the bargain ; for it was a poor little one-roomaffair, badly decayed, and worth practically nothingas a dwelling. Now it is a wandering show. It wasone of the attractions at the Chicago Exposition, andhas been at several other great fairs
. Highways and byways of the South. l exists,but it has not occupied its original site for a long the pasture it was moved about a mile towardHodgensville, and rebuilt on a bank close beside thehighway. The farmer who last lived in it told me hesold it to a Northern man for enough to erect himselfa good frame house, and he thought he got the bestof the bargain ; for it was a poor little one-roomaffair, badly decayed, and worth practically nothingas a dwelling. Now it is a wandering show. It wasone of the attractions at the Chicago Exposition, andhas been at several other great fairs ; but the knollnear the spring where it was in Lincolns babyhoodis the place for it, and one cannot help hoping it willreturn and be permanently located there. The onlyreminders of it still to be found on the spot are a fewstones that were in the old hearth, and some fragmentsof half-baked clay from the chimney. Even these arelikely to disappear soon, carried off bit by bit by pred-atory relic hunters. The Birthplace of Lincoln 159. A Pail of Water from the Lincoln Spring From the spring a well-trodden path leads away farup the eastern slope to the present-day Lincoln farm-house, and shortly after the young man from the nearfield had gone back to his work, two little girls camedown the path with a pail between them which theywere going to fill with water. They said their nameswere Ivory Goldy Burton and Vesty Opal Burton, and i6o Highways and Byways of the South that all the water the family used came from the spring,except what fell on the roof and was caught in rainbarrels set under the eaves spouts. I returned withthem, and arranged with their mother to become alodger at the Lincoln farmhouse. The house was in poor repair, the roof was leaky,window lights were gone, and the floors were warpedand shaky. The walls were of logs, but these had beenlong ago covered from sight with clapboards. Noouter painting had ever been done, and the clapboardswere extremely weatherworn and lo
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