Identifier: boyhoodofabraha1222gore (find matches)
Title: The boyhood of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Gore, J. Rogers (John Rogers), b. 1874 Gollaher, Austin, 1806-1898
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
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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S ^^ EOBINSON CRUSOE 183 along in the world; well, I believe he toldthe truth. I am going to try to do what Ithink mother wants me to do. Shes thebest friend I have and shes good to me,and if she should leave me I reckon I dnever be much account, because I wouldalways be thinking about her, andwouldnt have time to study my lessons.**I know one thing, said Austin, histear-stained eyes snapping, *^a boysmothers better to him than anybody else;shes a heap better to him than his father,and when she whips him, she whips himeasy, and when he cries she stops. Some-times when a boy cries, and tells his fa-ther hes hurting, he wont stop. You re-member the time father whipped me fortalking back to old man Evans, dont you?Well, there were marks around my legsfor two or three days, and when mothersaw the marks she called father and toldhim that he mustnt whip me that way anymore. And she told him, too, that old manEvans was a scamp, and that I oughtnt 184 THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN to have been whipp

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