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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ed tow^ards ISTew Salem, passing on theway a boy of sixteen, William G. Green, who had started early in themorning with a bag of corn to be ground at Mr. Rutledges mill. Rad-ford reached the store, beheld the wreck and ruin, and heard Jacksstory. lie had no particular desire to be a merchant any longer, andwas ready to sell out. Ill sell this store to the first person who makes me an offer, saidhe, as Green rode up ; and added, What Avill you give for it V The boy looked through the window and surveyed the interior —the shattered glass and crockery, the helter-skelter of frying-pans and 74 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. broken jugs. He noticed many of the most valuable articles had notbeen disturbed, and without much thought, and in fun rather than inearnest, said, Ill give you $400. • It is a bargain. But I havent any money, No matter; Ill take your note. Green dismounted, entered the store, and signed a note promisingto pay $400 after a specified number of days. A little later Abraham
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JiUTLEDGE S MUX. (From a pliotograph by C. S. llcCuUough, Petersburg, HI. Lincoln & Berrys store stoodnear the trees at the right of the view.) Lincoln came, beheld the broken crockery and general confusion, andlaughed as he listened to Jack Radfords account of how the ClaryGrove boys danced, yeUed, and smashed things. Green told the storyof the purchase. Billy, said Lincoln, I shouldnt be surprised if you had made agood bargain. Ill help you take an inventory.() Young Green, whose education had been limited, did not know just LIFE IN NEW SALEIM. 75 what an inventory might l)e. If it was a further smashing, he said hedid not care for it. Lincoln ex))lained it was an estimate of the valueof each article. You will need it, to be able to fix prices. The man who said this was part owner in a rival store; but he wasready to help the boy who thoughtlessly had begun as a trader. Theyhuni- the door on its hinges and nailed boards over the window. Greentook his corn to the mill antl Lincol

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