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Title: The boy Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Stoddard, William Osborn, 1835-1925
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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ps, and stanright thar ontil their names are called by me. Dennis and John and Abe stepped back, whileNancy and Sally and Matilda bravely faced Mr.Dorsey. They did pretty well with their spelling,too, until he cruelly broke them all down, one afteranother, with dreadfully tangled words of three andfour syllables each. That will do, he said. Go to your seats.Now for the boys. It is probable that they will notdo so well. Girls amost always do thar hardspellin bettern boys do. It comes natral to em.Abraham! The seats spoken of were rough plank sofas,without any other backing than the log walls behindthem. They were taken, however, and then therewas complete attention paid, all around the room,by every young student in it, while Abraham Lin-coln stood firmly and spelled correctly the firstword given him. It was one he had learned longago at his first school in Kentucky, and it may havebeen the only one, for he did not hit the mark again, although he was made to fire a number of verbal 138
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Look straight at me ! Bow ! NEW SCHOOLS shots. He was not lonely, however, for his twocompanions appeared to become panicky and madeout somewhat worse than he did. Go and sit down! commanded the school-master. It is jest as I was expecting. Spellinwill always be done better by girls than by boys,and how to account for it I do not know. It is soof some other things. He did not see fit to specify any of the otherthings which he did not know, but that was made aday of trial to all his pujDils, especially to the new-comers. There was one patch of blue sky in it,nevertheless, for he carried that rare luxury, awatch, and an hour came when, after gazing sternlyupon the open face of it, he declared that the timefor the accustomed recess had duly arrived. Thenthe scholars were all called upon to stand up intheir places and bow to him. That being done, theywere at liberty to attend to their several luncheonsof cold venison, corn-bread, bacon, or turkey, andto take up the important business of g

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