Identifier: abrahamlincol2043morg (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, James, 1861-1955
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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pi w H be fe ; < TJ a Q 3 w w joo IZh3 5 E c U ON THE PRAIRIES OF ILLINOIS His neighbors respected him for his strength ofcharacter as well as for his strength of body. Ifa wagon stalled in the crooked, muddy lane,which was the only street of New Salem, he wasamong the first to go to the aid of the driver. Ifa widow were in need of firewood, he cut it forher. He watched with the sick, and any chancefor kindness, from splitting a log to rocking a cradle,found his hand always ready to serve. If he madea mistake in weight or change across his counter,he did not sleep until he had corrected the error,though sometimes he tramped miles into the countryin order to find the customer whom he had innocentlywronged. All relied on his sincerity, and thus,while hardly more than a boy, he came to be hailedas Honest Abe. He was not, however, a successful business man.He would rather lie on the counter, his head restingon a pile of calico, and study a grammar, which hehad walked six miles to borro

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