The boyhood of Lincoln . s^ -^ egto S =0 <^ 5 ^ =0 a o 3 *~ V, • IS ?<: o 8 I i. THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN ize! Was fate never to tire of piling pangson that great heart? Robert Owen, Will-iam McClure, Robert Dale Owen, Audu-bon for a time, and others as celebrated;pioneers of liberal thought; founders ofthe Indiana school system and townshiplibraries; forerunners of modern educa-tion, social ideals and science; so near asto touch his experience, to excite his hopes,but just outside his opportunity; mock-ing at him with this sardonic turn ofthe wheel! The wilderness life suddenlytook on new
The boyhood of Lincoln . s^ -^ egto S =0 <^ 5 ^ =0 a o 3 *~ V, • IS ?<: o 8 I i. THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN ize! Was fate never to tire of piling pangson that great heart? Robert Owen, Will-iam McClure, Robert Dale Owen, Audu-bon for a time, and others as celebrated;pioneers of liberal thought; founders ofthe Indiana school system and townshiplibraries; forerunners of modern educa-tion, social ideals and science; so near asto touch his experience, to excite his hopes,but just outside his opportunity; mock-ing at him with this sardonic turn ofthe wheel! The wilderness life suddenlytook on new terrors; the youth who over-came such baffling, deadening mischances,loomed up to colossal proportions. Theclock ticked on; clinkers dropped into thegrate. A sleek house-cat came in on vel-vet paws and curled himself up on thebraided hearth-rug, in such luxuriouscontent as Lincoln never knew. OldDennis awoke, with prodigious yawns, 33 THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN and took up the dropped stitch of hisnarrative.* When Abe growed up he was a tur- * Robert Owen, the wealthy English philanth
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