Trading Trip-His First Dollar for Service-Looking higher-Call on
Mr. Woods - Disappointed Hope - Another Log-cabin-The
Statutes of Indiana-Studying and Reading at David Turnham's
—Going to Court—The Murder Trial—Meeting the Shelby Boy
and President―The Gentryville Lyceum-Questions Discussed—
Place for the Enslaved-Abe's Appearance-Centre of Attraction
--The Foolish Act and the Outcome-How he Learned-Dennis
Hanks' Eulogy-Talk of Removing to Illinois
The Families to Remove-How they Went-Abe of Age-Will not
Leave his Father and Mother-Scripps-His Description of Mov-
ing-Two Hundred Miles—Bad Roads and Swollen Streams—
The Kaskaskia-Uncle John's House-The Spot to Settle-
Building a Log-house-The Fifteen Acres-Ploughing, Rail-
splitting, and Fencing-Mrs. Brown's Story, and Abe's Bedfellow
-George Chase's Story-Splitting Rails, and Reading-Attacked
by Fever and Ague-Useful-A Hard Winter