Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1898, by RHODES & MCCLURE PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE Prefac 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. 99692 EARLY LIFE STORIES. An Honest Boy; Young Lincoln "Pulls Fodder" An Incident of Lincoln's Early Hardships and Nar- - A Pig Story; Lincoln's Kindness to the Brute Creation..... A Hard Tussle with Seven Negroes; Life on a Mississippi Flat-boat.. .: A Remarkable Story; "Honest Abe" as Postmaster. 18 21 32 33 40 46 -A Joke on Lincoln's Big Feet.. 50 Baby Footprints... 73 "Clarey's Grove Boys"; A Wrestling Match.. 57 How Lincoln Helped to Build a Boat: and How he Loaded the Live Stock.... How Lincoln Resented an Insult.. 88888 28 29 How Lincoln Piloted a Flat-boat Over a Mill Dam. 42 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 Lincoln's Mother; How He Loved Her. Mrs. Brown's Story of Young Abe; How a Man 36 Splitting Rails and Studying Mathematics; Simmons, 42 What Some Men Say About Lincoln; His First 30 When and Where Lincoln Obtained the Name of Young Lincoln's Kindness of Heart He Carries 21 A Revolutionary Pensioner Defended by Lincoln... 101 Gen. Linder's Account of the Lincoln-Shields Duel. 95 Honest Abe and His Lady Client.... 89 91 How Lincoln and Judge B. Swapped Horses... Lincoln's Story of Joe Wilson and his "Spotted Lincoln Defends Col. Baker.. Lincoln in Court... Lincoln Defends the Son of an Old Friend Indicted for Murder.... Lincoln's Pungent Retort.... 86 88 92 97 |