. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . n-ing, leaving for Indiana soonafter. Mrs. Johnston waswell supplied with furniture,clothing and household goods,and it required her brothersbig wagon and a four-horseteam to transport them toIndiana. Among the goodswas a bureau that cost fortydollars. Thomas Lincolnthought it extravagance, andwanted her to turn it intocash, which she flatly refused to do. When Mrs. Johnston, now Mrs. Lincoln,arrived at her new hom
. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . n-ing, leaving for Indiana soonafter. Mrs. Johnston waswell supplied with furniture,clothing and household goods,and it required her brothersbig wagon and a four-horseteam to transport them toIndiana. Among the goodswas a bureau that cost fortydollars. Thomas Lincolnthought it extravagance, andwanted her to turn it intocash, which she flatly refused to do. When Mrs. Johnston, now Mrs. Lincoln,arrived at her new home, she was astonished beyond measure at the contrastbetween the glowing representations which her husband had made to her beforeleaving Kentucky and the real poverty and meanness of the place. She hadevidently been given to understand that the bridegroom had abandoned his Ken-tucky ways, and was now a prosperous Indiana farmer. However, she made thebest of a bad bargain, and immediately set to work making the place more com-fortable and respectable. She had her husband put down a floor, hang windowsand doors, and use his skill with tools to make improvements in the cabin. It. SAKAH BUSH LINCOLN. 28 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. was a strange experience for Sarah and Abe to sleep in warm beds, and to eatwith knives and forks and have something warm and clean to wear. It wasonly a short time after the new mother came to the home until everything hadchanged. She had taken, a fancy to Abe as a child in Kentucky, and now shecared for him with affection, and from that time on he appeared to live a newlife. Sarah and Abe and the Johnston children soon became fast friends, andlived in the utmost harmony. Dennis Hanks also became a member of thehousehold, and was Abes companion from the time he was eight until twenty-two years of age. It is through himthat students know much of thisperiod of Abraham Lincolns life. When Thomas Lincoln first cameto Indiana there were only a fewsettlers, in all seven o
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