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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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going on he could do his part in making thingslively. He began no quarrel, but allowed no one to pick upon him.Somehow, if there was any dispute, the other boys appealed to him tosay what was right and fair. There is humor in the lines which he wrote in his arithmetic: Abraham Lincoln,His hand and pen ;He will be good, But God knows when.(^) After a few weeks with Dorsey, two years went by before the settlersfelt able to employ another teacher. Abraham Lincoln, the while, wasreading Defoes Robinson Crusoe, Bunyans Pilgrims Prog-ress, and Weems Life of Washington. () He borrowed thelast-named book of Josiah Crawford, and unfortunately laid it where therain wet the leaves. Mr. Crawford charged him 75 cents for the dam-age done the volume. Having no money, he paid the bill by workingthree days in Crawfords cornfield. () He was growing strong enoughto swing an axe, and help clear the land and hoe corn. His fatherwanted him to be a carpenter, and was teaching him to use the saw andchisel.
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lAFK IN INDIANA. ,55 With eight in the family, a bag of meal ((uickly (lisa))))eare(l. It wasfifteen miles or more to the nearest corn-mill, which was not driven hywater, but by a horse attachetl to a sweep and going round in a circh .The customer furnished the horse for the grinding. Abraham wentto the mill with a bag of corn, harnessed the maie, and struck hei-with a stick. He was going to say, (^et up. you old hussy! Thewords get u)) fell from his lij)s, and then he became unconscious,caused by a kick from the mare. Hours passed. Suddenly those whostood around him heard the Iest of the sentence—you old hussy. inafter-years he thus explained it: •• Prol)ably the muscles of my tonguehad been set to speak the words when the animals heels knocked medown, and my mind, like a gun, stopped half cocked, and cmly went offwhen consciousness returned.( ) People in Pigeon Creek had few opportunities of hearing what wasgoing on in the world. Once in a while a newspaptM- found its wayinto

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