. McClure's magazine. tly he asked his friendGreene to hold the book while he re-cited, and, when puzzled by a point, hewould consult Mr. Graham. Lincolns eagerness to learn was suchthat the whole neighborhood became in-terested. The Greenes lent him books,the schoolmaster kept him in mind and helped him as he could, and even the vil-lage cooper let him come into his shop andkeep up a fire of shavings sufficiently brightto read by at night. It was not long be-fore the grammar was mastered. Well,Lincoln said to his fellow-clerk, Greene, if thats what they call a science, I thinkIll go at anothe
. McClure's magazine. tly he asked his friendGreene to hold the book while he re-cited, and, when puzzled by a point, hewould consult Mr. Graham. Lincolns eagerness to learn was suchthat the whole neighborhood became in-terested. The Greenes lent him books,the schoolmaster kept him in mind and helped him as he could, and even the vil-lage cooper let him come into his shop andkeep up a fire of shavings sufficiently brightto read by at night. It was not long be-fore the grammar was mastered. Well,Lincoln said to his fellow-clerk, Greene, if thats what they call a science, I thinkIll go at another. He had made anotherdiscovery—that he could conquer the winter was ended he had be-come the most popular man in New in February, 1832, he was buttwenty-two years of age, had never beenat school an entire year in his life, hadnever made a speech except in debatingclubs and by the roadside, had read only thebooks he could pick up, and known onlythe men who made up the poor, out-of-the-. From a photograph taken for this Magazine. SITE OK DENTON OFFUTTS STORE. The building in which Lincoln clerked for Denton Offutt was standing as late as1836, and presumably stood until it rotted down. A slight depression in the earth,evidently once a cellar, is all that remains of Offutts store. Out of this hole in theground have grown three trees, a locust, an elm, and a sycamore, seeming to springfrom the same roots, and curiously twined together; and high up on the sycamoresome genius has chiselled the face of Lincoln. 122 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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