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Title: Life of Abraham Lincoln, illustrated : a biographical sketch of President Lincoln taken from Abbott's "Lives of the Presidents," and containing sixty half-tone illustrations and portraits
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot), 1805-1877
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Illustrated Booklet Company
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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the\ placed a store and a mill underhis care. A blessing seemed to follow him.Customers were multiplied. His straightfor-ward, determined honesty secured confidence.In settling a bill with a woman, he took sixand a quarter cents too much. He found it outin his nights reckoning, and immediatel3% inthe dark walked to her house two miles anda half distant, to pay it back to her. Justas he was closing the store one night inthe dusk, he weighed out half a pound of teafor a woman. In the morning he found, thatby an accidental defect in the scales, thewoman had received scant weight by fourounces. He vreighed out the four ounces, shutup the store, and carried them to her; a longwalk before breakfast. A bully came into the store one day, rioting,blustering, insulting beyond endurance, tryingto provoke a fight. Well, if you must bewhipped, said Abraham at last, I supposeI may as well whip you as any other man.He seized him with his long, powerful arms,threw him upon the ground as though he had
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 23 been a child, and, gathering in his hand somesmart weed, which chanced to be near,rubbed it in his face, until the fellow bellowedwith pain, and cried for mercy. Abraham, withmalice towards none, helped him up, gotsome cool water to bathe his burning face, andmade him ever after one of his best friends. He borrowed an English grammar, studiedit thoroughly, and completely mastered it. Hesought the society of the most intelligent menin that region, joined a debating club, andtook The Louisville Journal, which he notonly read, but carefully pondered all its lead-ing articles. Every leisure moment was de-voted to study and thought. In 1832, the celebrated Indian Chief BlackHawk crossed the Mississippi, and, with a largeband of savages, was ascending Rock River.Volunteers were called for to resist him. Lin-coln, with enough others in his immediateneighborhood to make a company, enlisted.Who should be their captain? There were twocandidates,—Mr. Lincoln and a Mr. Kirk-

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