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Title: Good stories for great birthdays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Olcott, Frances Jenkins
Subjects: Children's literature Birthdays
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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want my name, and as I cannot give it to themall, they will feel hurt if I give it to you. She looked around at her companions, andsaid, Only eight of us, sir! Lincoln could not resist that, so he sat downimmediately, and forgetting his other visitors,took eight sheets of paper and wrote a line andhis name on each. These he gave to the littlegirls, and they went away happy. He^s Beautiful! Once a little girls father took her to call uponLincoln. She had been told that he was veryhomely. But when he lifted her on his knee andtalked to her in his kindly, merry way, she turnedto her father, and exclaimed: — OPa! He is nt ugly at all! Hes beautiful! Please Let Your Beard Grow But there was another little girl who did notthink so. She lived in Westfield, in the State ofNew York. She had seen Lincolns picture, anddid not like it; so after his election she wrote aletter asking him to let his beard grow, as shethought it would make him better looking.Lincoln enjoyed the letter very much. It
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THE PRESIDENT AND THE BIBLE 183 happened later that he was on a train passingthrough Westfield, and, as the train stopped fora few minutes, he was asked to address the peopleat the station. He told about the letter, andstroking his chin, added: — I intend to follow her advice! He then called for the little girl. She cameforward, and he greeted her kindly. Three Little Girls One day, after Lincoln had gone to Washington,three little girls, the children of a workingman,went to the White House on a reception day.Thoy joined the throng, and were pushed alonguntil they came to where Lincoln was shakinghands with each of his visitors. When the children reached him, they were sobashful, that they did not dare to put out theirhands. But Lincoln saw them passing by, andcalled: — Little girls, are you going to pass me withoutshaking hands. Then, stooping over, he kept every one waitingwhile he shook hands with each child. THE PRESIDENT AND THE BIBLE Lincolns love of truth, justice, and merc

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