Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year i894, by Rhodes & Mcclure Publishing Company, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All Rights reserved. 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 i, 1896. EARLY LIFE STORIES. An Honest Boy; Young Lincoln "Pulls Fodder" Two Days for a Damaged Book 18 An Incident of Lincoln's Early Hardships and Nar- A Pig Story; Lincoln's Kindness to the Brute Crea- A Hard Tussle with Seven Negroes; Life on a Mis- A Remarkable Story; "Honest Abe" as Postmaster. 40 A Humorous Speech; Lincoln in the Black Hawk A Joke on Lincoln's Big Feet 50 "Clarey's Grove Boys"; A Wrestling Match 57 Gen. Linder's Early Recollections; Amusing Stories. 55 How Lincoln Earned his First Dollar 17 How Lincoln Helped to Build a Boat: and How he Loaded the Live Stock 28 How Lincoln Resented an Insult 29 [6] How Lincoln Piloted a Flat-boat Over a Mill Dam. 42 How Lincoln Became a Captain 45 How Lincoln Treated His Early Friend, Dennis Hanks, in Washington 62 Incidents Illustrating Lincoln's Honesty 27 Judge Moses' Early Recollections of Lincoln 64 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 35 Lincoln's Mechanical Ingenuity 39 Lincoln's Marriage; Interesting Letters 51 Lincoln's Mother; How He Loved Her 54 Mrs. Brown's Story of Young Abe; How a Man Slept with a President of the United States 36 Reminiscences; The Turning Point 59 Splitting Rails and Studying Mathematics; Simmons, Lincoln & Company 42 Senator Cullom's Interesting Reminiscences of Lin- ''The Long Nine." 4g What Some Men Say About Lincoln; His First Meeting with Richard Yates 30 When and Where Lincoln Obtained the Name of Young Lincoln's Kindness of Heart* He Carries Home and Nurses a Drunkard 21 Young Lincoln and his Books; Their Influence on A Remarkable Law Suit About a Colt 75 A letter to His Beloved Stepmother '82 An Amusing Story Concerning Thompson Camp- An Incident Related by one of Lincoln's Clients.... 87 Attention Shown to Relatives 91 A Revolutionary Pensioner Defended by Lincoln. .. 101 Gen. Linder's Account of the Lincoln-Shields Duel. 95 Honest Abe and His Lady Client 89 How Lincoln Kept His Business Accounts 91 How Lincoln Always Turned a Stury to His Advan- Hon. Newton Bateman's Thrilling Story of Mr; Lin- Springfield Preachers Voted 106 How Lincoln and Judge B. Swapped Horses 75 Lincoln's Story of a young Lawyer as he Told it to Gen. Garfield 79 Lincoln and His Stepmother 80 Lincoln's Story of Joe Wilson and his "Spotted Animals." 86 |