Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . 2/4 Lincolns stories and speeches. She told him of the sums, Which, said she, I haveall down here in my account book. On looking it over, he saw that her debts ranged fromfifty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and amounted in thegross to something less than twelve dollars; not a verystartling thing even in those days of small things. He succeeded in putting the little book into his coatpocket without attracting her attention, and went out,looked up
Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House incidents, war reminiscences, etc. . 2/4 Lincolns stories and speeches. She told him of the sums, Which, said she, I haveall down here in my account book. On looking it over, he saw that her debts ranged fromfifty cents to a dollar and a quarter, and amounted in thegross to something less than twelve dollars; not a verystartling thing even in those days of small things. He succeeded in putting the little book into his coatpocket without attracting her attention, and went out,looked up the various parties, and paid off all the littlesums according to the memorandum, and returned in theafternoon with the acknowledgments of payments in his returning the account book to her, she exclaimed: Why, Tommy Lincoln, have you gone and paid offall my debts? Yes, he said, and you will marry me now? Yes,said she, and they were married the next morn-ing at 9 oclock. Mr. Haycraft, the narrator of thestory, was present at the MISCELLANEOUS. 275
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