The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . rything he read he made long extracts, with his turkey-buzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had no paper hewould write on a board, and thus preserve his selections un-til he secured a copybook. The wooden fire-shovel was hisusual slate, and on its back he ciphered with a charred stickshaving it off when it had become too grimy for use. Thelogs and boards in his vicinity he cov
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . rything he read he made long extracts, with his turkey-buzzard pen and brier-root ink. When he had no paper hewould write on a board, and thus preserve his selections un-til he secured a copybook. The wooden fire-shovel was hisusual slate, and on its back he ciphered with a charred stickshaving it off when it had become too grimy for use. Thelogs and boards in his vicinity he covered with his figuresand quotations. By night he read and worked as long asthere was light, and he kept a book in the crack of the logs inhis loft, to have it at hand at peep of day. When acting asferryman on the Ohio, in his nineteenth year, anxious, nodoubt, to get through the books of the house where heboarded, before he left the place, he read every night untilmidnight. nothing more than a campaign sketch, to be faithful to the facts; andin order that the statement might be literally true, I secured the book afew weeks ago, and have sent for you to tell you that I have just readit through.—Jesse W. FRAGMENT FROM A LEAT IN LINCOLNS EXERCISE-BOOK. 32 LIFE OF LINCOLN Every lull in his daily labor he used for reading, rarelygoing to his work without a book. When ploughing or culti-vating the rough fields of Spencer county, he found fre-quently a half hour for reading, for at the end of every longrow the horse was allowed to rest, and Lincoln had his bookout and was perched on stump or fence, almost as soon as theplough had come to a standstill. One of the few people stillleft in Gentryville who remembers Lincoln, Captain JohnLamar, tells to this day of riding to mill with his father, andseeing, as they drove along, a boy sitting on the top rail of anold-fashioned stake-and-rider worm fence, reading so in-tently that he did not notice their approach. His father turn-ing
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