Identifier: abrahamlincolnss00linco (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 McClure, J. B. (James Baird), 1832-1895
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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having a conversation with Lincoln, that the young manhad talent enough in him to make a President. Inevery circle in which he found himself, whether refinedor coarse, he was always the center of attraction. William G. Greene says that when he (Greene) was amember of the. Illinois College, he brought home withhim, on a vacation, Richard Yates, afterwards Governorof the State, and some other boys, and; in order toentertain them, took them all up to see Lincoln. Hefound him in his usual position and at his usual occupa-tion. He was flat on his back, on a cellar door, readinga newspaper. That was the manner in which a Presi-dent of the United States and a Governor of Illinois be-came acquainted with one another. Mr. Greene saysthat Lincoln then repeated the whole of Burns, and was adevoted student of Shakspeare. So the rough back-woodsman, self-educated, entertained the college boys,and was invited to dine with them on bread and milk.How he managed to upset his bowl of milk is not a mat-
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32 Lincolns stories and speeches. ter of history, but the fact that he did so, as is the furth-er fact that Greenes mother, who loved Lincoln, tried tosmooth over the accident and relieve the young mansembarassment. -⭕- A Pig Story—Lincolns Kindness to the Brute Creation. An amusing incident occurred in connection withriding the circuit, which gives a pleasant glimpse intothe good lawyers heart. He was riding by a deepslough, in which, to his exceeding pain, he saw a pigstruggling, and with such faint efforts that it was evidentthat he could not extricate himself from the mud. Mr.Lincoln looked at the pig and the mud which envelopedhim, and then looked at some new clothes with whichhe had but a short time before enveloped himself. De-ciding against the claims of the pig, he rode on, but hecould not get rid of the vision of the poor brute, and, atlast, after riding two miles, he turned back, determinedto rescue the animal at the expense of his new clothes.Arrived at the spot, he ti

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