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Identifier: lincolnslifestor01selb (find matches)
Title: Lincoln's life, stories, and speeches
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Selby, Paul, 1825-1913
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : J.R. Stanton Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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isan oC Henry Clay.Abraham must have been very young when heread Weems Life -of Washington, and we catch aglimpse of his precocity in the thoughts which itexcited, as revealed by himself in the speech made tothe New Jersey Senate, while on his way to Washing-ton to assume the duties of the Presidency. Alluding to his early reading of this book, he says-I remember all the accounts there given of the battle-fields and struggles for the liberty of the country, andnone fixed themselves upon my imagination so deeplyas the struggle here at Trenton, New Jersey. Irecollect thinking then, a boy even though I was, thatthere must have been something more than commonthat those men struggled for. Even at this age, heWas not only an interested reader of the story, but astudent of motives. ABES REBUKE. The first time I ever remember seeing Abe Lin-coln. is the testimony of one of his neighbors, w4swhen-J was a small boy and had gone with my fatherto attend some kind of an election. One of the neigh.
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STORIES OF LINCOLNS EARLY LIFE 49 bors, James Larkins, was there. Larkins was a greathand to brag on anything he owned. This time it washis horse. He stepped up before Abe, v/ho was in acrowd, and commenced talking to him, boasting a1the while of his animal. I have got the best horse in the country, heshouted to his young listener. *I ran him nine milesin exactly three minutes, and he never fetched a longbreath. * I presume,- said Abe, rather dryly, *he tetched agood many short ones, though.* LINCOLNS LIZARD STORY A country meeting-house, that was used once amonth, was quite a distance from any other house. The preacher, an old-line Baptist, was dressed incoarse linen pantaloons, and shirt of the same material.The pants, manufactured after the old fashion, withbaggy legs and a flap in the front, were made to attachto his frame without the aid of suspenders. A singlebutton held his shirt in position, ana that was at thecollar. He rose up in the pulpit, and with a loudvoice announced hilincolnslifestor01selb

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