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Title: "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (excerpts)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : International Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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d the court would be lenient uponhim because he was a poor orphan! •BAP. McNABBS BOOSTER. It is true that Lincoln did not drink, never swore, was a stranger tosmoking and lived a moral life generally, but he did like horse-racing and chicken fighting. NewSalem, Illinois, whereLincoln was clerking,was known the neigh-borhood around as afast town, and the av-erage young man madeno very desperate resis-tance when tempted to■join in the drinking andgambling bouts. Bap. McNabb wasfamous for his ability inboth the raising and thepurchase of roosters ofprime fighting quality,and when his birdsfought the attendancewas large. It was be-cause of the flunkingof one of Bap.s roosters that Lincolnwas enabled to make a point when criticis-ing McClellans unreadiness and lack of en-ergy. One night there was a fight on the schedule, one of Bap. McNabbsbirds being a contestant. Bap. brought a little red rooster, whose fightingqualities had been well advertised for days in advance, and much interest
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YARNS AXD STORIES. 93 cheaper scale tlian had the real devotees of Sam, and had raked down hispile with his own cider! END FOR END. Judge H. W. Beckwith, of Danville, 111., in his Personal Recollectionsof Lincoln, tells a story which is a good example of Lincolns way of con-densing the law and the facts of an issue in a story: A man, by vile words,first provoked and then made a bodilyattack upon another. The latter, indefending himself, gave the other muchthe worst of the encounter. The aggres-^V;^sor, to get even, had the one who thrashed j^him tried in our Circuit Court on a charge (^of an assault and battery. Mr. Lincolndefended, and told the jury that his clientwas in the fix of a man who, in goingalong the highway with a pitchfork onhis shoulder, was attacked by a fierce dogthat ran out at him from a farmers door-yard. In parrying ofT the brute with thefork, its prongs stuck into the brute andkilled him. What made you kill my dog? saidthe farmer. What made him try to biteme? But

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