. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . tuffs woven by from freezing too stiff to be put on. The chil-dren grew inured to misery like this, andplayed barefoot in the snow. It is an error tosuppose that all this could be undergone withimpunity. They suffered terribly from malarialand rheumatic complaints, and the instancesof vigorous and painless age were rare amongthem. The lack of moral and mental suste-nance was still more marked. They were in-clined to be a religious people, but a sermonwas an unusual luxury, only to be enjoyed atlong intervals and by great expense of
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . tuffs woven by from freezing too stiff to be put on. The chil-dren grew inured to misery like this, andplayed barefoot in the snow. It is an error tosuppose that all this could be undergone withimpunity. They suffered terribly from malarialand rheumatic complaints, and the instancesof vigorous and painless age were rare amongthem. The lack of moral and mental suste-nance was still more marked. They were in-clined to be a religious people, but a sermonwas an unusual luxury, only to be enjoyed atlong intervals and by great expense of were few books or none, and there waslittle opportunity for the exchange of variation in the dreary course of eventswas welcome. A murder was not without itsadvantages as a stimulant to conversation; acapital trial was a kind of holiday to a was this poverty of life, this famine of socialgratification, from which sprang their fondnessfor the grosser forms of excitement, and theirtendency to rough and brutal practical MAP SHOWING VARIOUS LOCALITIES CONNECTED WITH EARLY EVENTS IN THE LINCOLN FAMILY. themselves. They hardly knew the use ofiron except in their firearms and food consisted almost exclusively ofgame, fish, and roughly ground exchanges were made by barter ; manya child grew up without ever seeing a pieceof money. Their habitations were hardly su-perior to those of the savages with whomthey waged constant war. Large familieslived in log huts, put together with woodenpegs, and far more open to the inclemenciesof the skies than the pig-styes of the carefulfarmer of to-day. An early schoolmaster saysthat the first place where he went to boardwas the house of one Lucas, consisting of asingle room, sixteen feet square, and tenantedby Mr. and Mrs. Lucas, ten children, threedogs, two cats, and himself. There weremany who lived in hovels so cold that theyhad to sleep on their shoes to keep them In a life like theirs
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