. The boy Lincoln . last week. Jedge Hoskins an all onem made speeches. Hes makin another. That was what he was doing, with only an emptycorn-field to hear him, and he was mounted uponone of the largest stumps in that clearing. In a fewminutes more he had all the Lincoln family beforehim, with three or four of their neighbors; but Tomwent and pulled him down. Look a here, he said to his lanky son, doyou jest go back to your corn-shellin; then you anJohn can make a trip to the mill. You know morebout pone than you do bout politics. Dont ye tryit on agin. Down came Abe, but he had an unaccountab
. The boy Lincoln . last week. Jedge Hoskins an all onem made speeches. Hes makin another. That was what he was doing, with only an emptycorn-field to hear him, and he was mounted uponone of the largest stumps in that clearing. In a fewminutes more he had all the Lincoln family beforehim, with three or four of their neighbors; but Tomwent and pulled him down. Look a here, he said to his lanky son, doyou jest go back to your corn-shellin; then you anJohn can make a trip to the mill. You know morebout pone than you do bout politics. Dont ye tryit on agin. Down came Abe, but he had an unaccountablefeeling inside of him that his oration—not his first,by any means—had been a kind of success, and thathis fathers prohibition applied to only that one oc-casion. It did not cover the whole of Indiana, norany of the other States, and there would always bestumps somewhere for a fellow who was ready tomount them. The political orators were not the only exampleswhich Abe attemx)ted to copy. There were no set- 226. He was mounted upon one of the largest stumj)S. y STUMP SPEAKING tied pastors in that neigliborliood, but there wereministers who rode the circuit and preached asmissionaries from place to place. The days of theircoming were fixed long beforehand, and it madenot a great deal of difference what denominationof Christians any of them nominally belonged their hearers, if they came within her reach,was sure to be good Mrs. Lincoln, and she was al-most as sure to bring with her her husband, andsome of the children if possible. Abe was likely togo on his own account, if he could, for a reason ofhis own. The fact was that a preacher was as inter-esting to him as any other stump orator, and was assure to be imitated, and possibly caricatured, at thenext opportunity. That might be found in thewoods, or in a corn-field, at any time, but somethingmore to his liking was to be had at the house itselfon any Sunday absence of his father and Mrs. Lincoln and her h
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