Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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n March theywould reach the Sangamon country with the beginning of spring. Sothe farm was sold and preparations made for the journey. They were eight in all, besides beds, bedding, frying-pan, skillet,Dutch-oven, bags of meal, hams, and sides of bacon, in wagons drawn byoxen. It was in March—the month of snow, sleet, rain, mud, chilling-winds. The rivers were filled with floating ice or overflowing theirbanks. If they could not find shelter in a cabin at night, they mustbuild a camp in the woods or sleep in the wagons. Abraham Lincoln is free to go where he will, but the fever andrestlessness of former days have passed away. He has been a dutifulson, and will see his parents in their new home before he strikes out forhimself. He drives the oxen, or takes his turn in swinging the axeto build a camp or a bridge across a creek. When the wagon sinkshub-deep in the mire he puts his shoulder to the wheel and lifts it out.A little dog trots by the side of the teamster. They come to a river
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A CITIZEN OF ILLINOIS. 49 With ice upon its banks and in its surging current. The rehictant cat-tle wallow the stream with all hands in the wagons. Tnwittingly thepuppy has been left behind; they hear it yelping. It is a worthlesscur, but Abraham Lincoln has not the heart to leave it. lie will nothave the shivering cattle wade the stream again, but barefooted he re-crosses the water, takes the dog in his arms, and returns to the wagons.I cannot bear to see even a puppy in distress, he says, as he bringsthe cur up the bank. () Befoie they reached Decatur two weeks went l)y—days of hardshipand suffering, the severest weather of the winter. John Hanks hadbeen true to his promise; the logs had been made ready, and, with allhands to help, a cabin was quickly constructed. At the age of twenty-one, Abraham Lincoln, wearing a jean jacket,shrunken buckskin trousers, and coon-skin cap, tlriving an ox-team,(Mitercd Illinois, to be thenceforth a citizen of that State. He hadreached the years of

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