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. 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. CONTENTS EARLY LIFE STORIES. An Honest Boy; Young Lincoln "Pulls Fodder" Two Days for a Damaged Book..... An Incident of Lincoln's Early Hardships and Nar- How Lincoln Resented an Insult.. 29 How Lincoln Piloted a Flat-boat Over a Mill Dam. 42 45 How Lincoln Became a Captain. . . . How Lincoln Treated His Early Friend, Dennis Incidents Illustrating Lincoln's Honesty. Judge Ewing's Story... Judge Moses' Early Recollections of Lincoln. DONO A 62 27 63 64 Mrs. Brown's Story of Young Abe; How a Man What Some Men Say About Lincoln; His First 30 When and Where Lincoln Obtained the Name of "Honest Abe.".... 37 21 An Amusing Story Concerning Thompson Camp- An Incident Related by one of Lincoln's Clients.... A Revolutionary Pensioner Defended by Lincoln... Gen. Linder's Account of the Lincoln-Shields Duel. Honest Abe and His Lady Client.... How Lincoln Kept His Business Accounts. 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.. |