. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . amilies would select apiece of ground and begin apioneers life, with an ax inone hand and a firebrand inthe other—the evidence thatthe advance-guard of civili-zation had arrived. A spotfor a home was selected,generally near a spring or astream, and father and sonsset to work felling trees tobuild a cabin. All settlerscabins were alike—an oblong room, built of rough logs, with a door in oneside and a fireplace in on
. Life of Abraham Lincoln; being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to . amilies would select apiece of ground and begin apioneers life, with an ax inone hand and a firebrand inthe other—the evidence thatthe advance-guard of civili-zation had arrived. A spotfor a home was selected,generally near a spring or astream, and father and sonsset to work felling trees tobuild a cabin. All settlerscabins were alike—an oblong room, built of rough logs, with a door in oneside and a fireplace in one end; the roof consisted of rafters made from polescovered with clapboards; the cracks between the logs were stopped up withclay; usually there were no windows or floors. When more room was needed,the space between the rafters was made into a loft, reached by climbing up pegsin the wall. The furniture of the pioneers cabin was such as he could makefrom split boards with a few crude tools. They cooked by the open was baked by heating flat stones; or perhaps they were the possessors ofa Dutch oven, an iron vessel about the size of a skillet, only twice as deep,. THK ICII TIIF M I nt! ABRAHAM LINCOLN. with short legs aud a lid. To bake, they placed it on the hearth and heapedlive coals over it. Buffalo robes were their main bedding, and most of theirclothing was made from the skins of animals. After the cabin was built, allhands set to work clearing ground for a crop. Trees were chopped down, thelogs rolled in heaps, the brush piled on top, and burned. The early settlers life was rough and monotonous; his surroundings weredreary; his cabin was destitute of the most common comforts; the blackenedstumps and dead trees stood thick in his small field; neighbors were far apart:wild animals prowled around at night; and the settlers lived in mortal dread ofthe Indians, who were now thoroughly aroused against the white man for takingpossession of their hunting-grounds, and
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