Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1894, by RHODES & MCCLURE PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All Rights reserved. mu In his speeches—and we may add—his stories, the great Lincoln "still lives,” with an influence for good among men. Whatever may attach to his mere biography, that reveals a life of struggle and disadvantage in early years—unparalleled in fact in this respect—the truth is the MAN LINCOLN is not in the “early cabin home,” but in “words that never die ”-in the compiled utterances of this volume, that reveal and perpetuate the soul life of him who spoke so often, so fully and truly, of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and of a government “that is of the people, by the people, and for the people.” In this form these stories and speeches, whose radiance lightens all pathways, are dedicated to the world, in the firm faith that in the fulness of time, the knowledge of the truth shall make all people free. J. B. MCCLURE. CHICAGO, June 1, 1896. 18 21 32 33 40 An Honest Boy; Young Lincoln “Pulls Fodder" .. An Incident of Lincoln's Early Hardships and Nar row Escape from Death..... A Pig Story; Lincoln's Kindness to the Brute Crea tion.... A Hard Tussle with Seven Negroes; Life on a Mis sissippi Flat-boat.. ... War ... he Loaded the Live Stock... How Lincoln Resented an Insult.. 46 50 73 57 47 55 17 28 29
42 62 How Lincoln Piloted a Flat-boat Over a Mill Dam. Hanks, in Washington. Incidents Illustrating Lincoln's Honesty Judge Moses' Early Recollections of Lincoln.. Little Lincoln Firing at Big Game Through the Lincoln and his Gentle Annie; A Touching Inci- Lincoln Splits Several Hundred Rails for a pair of Pants; How he Looked, as Described by a Com- Lincoln's Story of a Girl in New Salem. Lincoln's Mechanical Ingenuity... Lincoln's Marriage; Interesting Letters.. Lincoln's Mother; How He Loved Her. Mrs. Brown's Story of Young Abe; How a Man Slept with a President of the United States. Reminiscences; The Turning Point. .. Splitting Rails and Studying Mathematics; Simmons, Lincoln & Company. ..., Senator Cullom's Interesting Reminiscences of Lin- “The Long Nine.” Meeting with Richard Yates.... «Honest Abe.”. Home and Nurses a Drunkard... 36 42 49 30 37 21 A Remarkable Law Suit About a Colt.. A letter to His Beloved Stepmother.. An Amusing Story Concerning Thompson Camp- An Incident Related by one of Lincoln's Clients... Attention Shown to Relatives.. A Revolutionary Pensioner Defended by Lincoln... IOI Gen. Linder's Account of the Lincoln-Shields Duel. Honest Abe and His Lady Client... How Lincoln Kept His Business Accounts.. How Lincoln Always Turned a Stury to His Advan- 103 coln; The Great Man Lookiag to See How the 106 79 80 86 |