. "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]. 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 days of theold canal, and did their honestshare in making that piece of in-fr) ternal improvement, an accom-plished fact. One time Mr. Lincoln toldthe story o
. "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]. 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 days of theold canal, and did their honestshare in making that piece of in-fr) ternal improvement, an accom-plished fact. One time Mr. Lincoln toldthe story of one of those impor-tant young fellows—not an Irish-man—who lived in every town,and have the cares of state ontheir shoulders. This young fel-low met an Irishman on the street, and called to him, officiously: Oh,Mike, Im awful glad I met you. Weve got to do something to wake upthe boys. The campaign is coming on, and weve got to get out just had a meeting up here, and were going to have the biggest bar-becue that ever was heard of in Illinois. We are going to roast two wholeoxen, and were going to have Douglas and Governor Cass and some one. YARNS AND STORIES. 129 IINCOLN CAMPAIGN MOTTOES.
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