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Title: Lincoln, the lawyer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hill, Frederick Trevor, 1866-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lawyers Presidents
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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which attempted to housethe visitors boasted only one habitable room, andas this was invariably reserved for the judge,the lawyers not included in his hospitality had tosleep anywhere they could—on the sofas, thetables, the window-seats, the floor, and even inthe lofts and horse-stalls. It was no uncommonthing for his Honor to invite three or four mento occupy his room, but the one who was selectedto share Judge Daviss bed might about as wellhave slept on the floor, for that jurist was al-most as wide as the ordinary four-poster. Lin-coln and he made a fair average as far as widthwas concerned, but as the former was six feetfour and had to lie crosswise to fit in the averagebed, their combination was not a pronouncedsuccess. In the dining-room the tavern-keeper usually172 LIFE ON THE ILLINOIS CIRCUIT reserved one end of the long table for the bar,and the judge was always expected to preside atthe head of the board; but the function was fre-quently a Barmecide feast, and, as Lincoln
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Drawn by Harry Fenn from a contemporary print Original offices of Lincoln & Herndon—interior remarked, there was very little advantage in sit-ting at the head of the table unless the foodimproved as you moved up. Except for this dis-tinction as to place, there was no difference madebetween the legal fraternity and the other guestsof the hotel, and litigants, witnesses, jurors, andprisoners out on bail were accommodated at the 173 LINCOLN THE LAWYER same table and enjoyed the same fare. Indeed,Mr. Whitney recalls several persons actually ontrial who not only took their meals with hisHonor and the bar, but also spent their eveningsin the judges room, without the slightest embar-rassment to any one. The inconvenience and discomforts of the lifewere at times almost unbearable, but Lincolnwas never known to join in the frequent protestsand complaints of his associates. Indeed, hissense of humor often saved the situation andmade it tolerable, if not enjoyable, for himselfand others. H

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