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But this practice of preaching and
political speaking Into which Abe had
fallen at length became a great nui
sance to his father. It distracted every
body, and sadly Interfered with the
jwork. If Abe had confined his -discourses
to Sunday preaching, while the
bid folks were away, it would not have
teen so objectionable. But he knew his
power, liked to please everybody, and
would be sure to set up as an orator
wherever he found the greatest num
ber of people together.
When it was announced that Abe had
taken the "stump" in the harvest field
there was an eud of work. The hands
flocked around him and listened to his
curious speeches witn infinite delight.
"The sight of such a thing amused all,"
Bays Mrs. Lincoln, though she admits
that her husband was compelled to
break it up with the strong hand, and
poor Abe was many times dragged
from the platform and hustled off to
his work In no gentle manner.
Abe worked occasionally with his fa
ther in the shop, but he did it reluctant
ly. The rough work turned out at that
shop was far beneath his ambition, and
he had made up his mind to lead a life
as wholly unlike his father's as he
could possibly make it He, therefore
refused to be u carpenter. Cut he could
not afford to be idle, and as soon as he
was able to earn wages he was hired
out among the neighbors. He worked
for many of them a few months at a
time and seemed perfectly willing to
transfer his services wherever they
were wanted, so that his father had no
excuse for persecuting him with en
treaties about learning to make tables
and cupboards.
"Abe LinkemV Wit
Abe was now becoming a man and
was in fact already taller than any
man in the neighborhood. He was a
Universal favorite, and bis wit and hu
mor made him heartily welcome at ev
ery cabin between the two Pigeon
creeks. Any family was glad when
"Abe Linkern was hired to work with
them, for he did his work well and
made them all merry while he was
about It. The women were especially
pleased, for Abe was not above doing
any kind of chores for them. He was
always ready to make a fire, carry wa
ter or nurse a baby. But what manner
of people were these among whom he
passed the most critical part of his
life? We must know them if we de
sire to know him.
There lived in the neighborhood of
G entry ville a Mrs. Elizabeth Craw
ford, wife to the Joslah with the sour
temper and the blue nose. Abe was
very fond of her and inclined to let
himself out in her company. We have
from her a great mass of valuable and
sometimes extremely amusing . infor
mation. Among it is : the following
graphic; although rude, account of the
Pigeon Creek people In general:
"We thought it nothing to go eight
or ten miles to .meeting. The old ladies
did not stop-Xor the want of a shawl or
clQatr.-rtdjjif Creg.or tiro
11
ildren.
bull
ForlnfY
The Kino You Have
Always Bought
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
IS)
1U
Boyhood
WARD
HILL
LAMON,
His Frlead,
Fattaer
txnd
Bodytfaard
Birthplace
tffe -winter time, but they would put on
their husbands' old overcoats, wrap up
their little ones, take one or two of
them up on their beasts, and their hus
bands would walk. They would go to
church and stay in the neighborhood
until the next day and then go home.
The old men would start out of their
fields from their work or out of the
woods from hunting, with their guns
on their shoulders, and go to church.
"Some of them dressed in deerskin
pants and moccasins, bunting shirts,
with a rope or leather strap around
them. They would come in laughing,
shake hands all around, sit down and
talk about the game they had killed
i or some other work they had done and
smoke their pipes together with the old
I ladies. If in warm weather, they would
: kindle up a little fire out in the meeting i
' house yard to light their pipes. If in
winter time, they would hold church in
some of the neighbors' houses.
"At such times they were always
treated with the utmost kindness. A
bottle of whisky, a pitcher of water,
sugar and glass were set out, or a bas
ket of apples or turnips or some pies
and cakes. Apples were scarce, them
times. Sometimes potatoes were used
as a treat. I must tell you that the first
treat I ever received in old Mr. Lin
kern's house, that was our president's!
father's house, was a plate of potatoes
washed and . pared very nicely and
handed round. It was something new
to me, for I never had seen a raw po
tato eaten before. I looked to see how
they made use of them. They took off
a potato and ate them like apples.
"Thus they spent the time till time
for preaching to commence; then they
would all take their seats, the preach
er would take his stand, draw his coat,
open his shirt collar, commence service
by singing and prayer; take his text
and preach till the sweat would roll
off in great drops.- Shaking hands and
singing then ended the service. The
people seemed to enjoy religion more
in them days than they do now. They
were glad to see each other and enjoy
ed themselves better "than they do
now."
Carried-Their : Shoes.
Society about Gentryville was little
different from that of any other back
woods settlement of the same day. The
houses were scattered far apart, but
the inhabitants would travel long dis
tances to a log rolling, a house raising,
a wedding or anything else that might
be turned into a fast and furious frolic.
On such occasions the young women
carried their shoes in their hands and
only put them on when about to join
the company. The ladles drank whisky
toddy, while the men took It straight,
and both sexes ' danced the livelong
night barefooted n puncheon floors.
The fair sex wore "cornfield bonnets,
scoop shaped, flaring In front and
long, though narrow, behind." Shoes
.were the" mods when entering the bail
room, hot it -was "not at all fashionable
to scuff them oat by .walking or danc
ing to them, . rfouc yards of Kneer-
Bears the Jr.
Signatur
mi
tm Mmn rnvmnon. mtm
rbr any "worn" an. The waist was snort
and terminated just under the arms,
while the skirt was long and narrow.
"Crimps and puckering-frills! It had
none. .
The coats of the men were home
made; the materials jeans or. linsey
i.vroolsey. The waists were short, like
; the frocks of the women, and the long
! "claw hammer" tail was split np to the
waist. " " -
The Pigeon Creek farmer "tickled
two acres of ground in a day with his
old shovel plow and got but half a
crop He cut one acre with his' sickle.
With his flail .and horse tramping he
thrashed out fifteen bushels of wheat
He "fanned" and "cleaned with a
sheet"
The minds of these people were filled
with superstitfons, which most persons
Imagine to be at least as antiquated as
witch burning. They firmly believed in
witches and all kind of witch doings.
They sent for wizards to cure sick cat
tle. There, were "faith doctors" who
cured diseases by performing mysteri
ous ceremonies and muttering cabalis
tic words. If a bird alighted in a win
dow, one of the family would speedily
die. If a horse breathed on a child, the
child would have the whooping cough.
Everything must be done at certain
times and seasons, else it would be
attended with bad luck. They must
cut trees for rails in the early part of
the day and in "the light of the moon."
They must make fence in "the light of
the moon, otherwise the fence would
sink.
A Noble Stepmother. '
Such 'were the people among whom
Abe grew to manhood. With their sons
and daughters he went to srJhool. Upon
their farms he earned his bread by
daily toiL From their conversation he
formed his earliest opinions of men
and things , the world over. Many of
their peculiarities 1 became his, and
many of their thoughts and feelings
concerning a multitude of subjects
were assimilated - with his own and
helped to create that unique character
which, in the eyes of a great host of the
American people, was only less curi
ous and amusing than it was noble and
august
His most intimate companions were
of course for a long time the members
of his own family. The reader already
knows something of Thomas Lincoln
and that pre-eminently good woman,
Sally Bush. The latter, we know, wash
ed, clothed, loved and encouraged Abe
in well doing from the moment he fell
in her way. How much he owed to her
goodness and affection he was himself
never able to estimate. That it was a
great debt fondly acknowledged . and
cheerfully repaid as far as in him lay,
there can be no doubt. :
His own sister, the child of Nancy
Hanks, was warmly attached to him.
Her face somewhat resembled his. In
repose it had the gravity which they
both, perhaps, inherited from their
mother, but it was capable of being
lighted almost into beauty by one of
Abe's ridiculous' stories or rapturous
sallies of humor. She was a modest,
plain, industrious girl and is kindly re
membered by all who knew her. She
was married to Aaron Grigsby at eight
een and a year after died.
Like Abe, she occasionally worked
out at the houses of the neighbors, and
at one time was employed in Mrs.
Crawford's kitchen, while her brother
was a laborer on the same farm. She
lies burled, not with her mother, but
in the yard of the old Pigeon Creek
meeting house. It is especially pleasing
to read the encomiums lavished upon
her memory by the Grigsbys, for be
tween the Grigsbys on one side and
Abe and his stepbrother on the other
there once subsisted a fierce feud. .
As we have already learned from
Dennis Hanks the two families the
Johnstons and the Lincolns "got along
finely together." The affectionate rela
tions between Abe and his two stepsis-
DENNIS HANKS.
ters were the subject of common re
mark throughout the neighborhood.
One of them married Dennis Hanks
and the other Levi Hall, or, as he is
better known, Squire Hall, a cousin of
Abe. Both these women have given an
account of him which shows that the
ties between them were of the stron
gest and tenderest kind. But what is
most remarkable in their statements is
that they never opened their lips with
out telling how worthy of everybody's
love their mother was and how Abe re
vered her as much as they did. They
were interesting girls and became ex
emplary women.
John D. Johnston, the only son ot
Mrs. Lincoln, was not the best boy, and
did not grow to be the best man, in all
the Pigeon Creek . region. He had no
positive' vice except idleness and no
special virtue but good temper. Mr.
Lincoln all through John's life had
much trouble to keep him on his legs
and succeeded indifferently In an his
attempts As youths toe Intimacy be
tween John and Abe was very close,
and Ahe nadertook his second voyage
to-Mew; Orleans onlyoa eeoOitfcB'QMrt
: Jolly Dennis -Hanks. .
But the most constant of his eompan
.ions was his jolly cousin, Dennis
Hanks. Of all the contributors to Mr.
Herndon's store of information, good,
bad and Indifferent concerning this pe
riod of Mr. Lincoln's life Dennis is tha
most nmnsintr Instnnnttne nnrl nmllAo
He would have it distinctly understood4
that the well of his memory is the only
proper ; source whence anything like
truth may be drawn. He has covered
countless sheets of paper devoted to in
discriminate laudations of Abe and all
his kindred. "
When Thomas and Betsy Sparrow
died in the fall of 1818, Dennis was
taken from the "little half faced camp"
and became one of the Lincoln family.
Until Thomas Lincoln's second : mar
riage Dennis, Abe and Sarah were all
three poor, ragged and miserable to
gether. After that Dennis got along
better, as well as the rest He was a
lively, volatile, sympathetic fellow, and
Abe liked him well from the beginning.
They fished, hunted and worked in
company; loafed at the grocery, where
Dennis got drunk and Abe told stories,
talked politics with Colonel Jones,
swapped jokes with Baldwin, - the
blacksmith, and faithfully attended the
sittings of the nearest justice of the
peace, where both had opportunities to
correct and annotate the law they
thought they had learned from the
"Statutes of Indiana."
Dennis was kind, genial, lazy, brim
ming over with humor and full of
amusing anecdotes. He reveled in
song, from the vulgarest ballad to the
loftiest hymn of devotion, from "The
turbaned Turk that scorns the world"
to the holiest lines of Dr. Watts'. These
qualities marked him wherever he
went, and in excessive good nature and
in the ease with which he passed from
the extreme of rigor to the extreme of
laxity he was distinguished above the
others of his name.
There was one Hanks, however, who
was not like Dennis ; or , any other
Hanks we know anything about. This
was "old John," as he is familiarly call
ed in Illinois, a sober, honest truthful
man, with none of the wit and none of
the questionable accomplishments of
Dennis. He was the son of Joseph, the
carpenter with whom Thomas Lincoln
learned the trade. He went to Indiana
to live with the Lincolns when Abe
was fourteen years of age and remain
ed there four years. He then returned
to Kentucky and subsequently went to
Illinois, where he was speedily joined
by the old friends he had left in In
diana. The Rail Splitter.
When Abe separated from the family
and went in search of individual, for
tune it was in company with "old
John." Together they split the . rails
that did so much to make Abe presi
dent and "old John" set the ball in
motion by carrying a part of them into
the Decatur convention on his own
broad shoulders. John had no educa
tion' whatever except that of the mus
cles and v the heart He could neither
read nor write, but bis character was
pure and respectable, and Lincoln es
teemed him as a man and loved him as
a friend and relative's
In 1825 Abraham was employed by
James Taylor, who lived at the mouth
of Anderson's creek. He was paid $6
a month and remained for nine months.
His principal business was the man
agement of a ferryboat which Mr. Tay
lor had .plying across the Ohio, as well
as Anderson's creek. But in addition to
this he was required to do all sorts of
farm work and even to perform some
menial services about the house. He
was hostler, plowman, ferryman, out
of doors, and man of all work within
doors. He ground corn with a hand
mill or "grated" it when too young to
be ground; rose early, built fires, put
on the water in the kitchen, "fixed
around generally" and had things pre
pared for cooking before the mistress
of the house was stirring.
He slept upstairs with young Green
Taylor, who says that he usually read
till near midnight notwithstanding
the necessity for being out of his bed
before day. Green was somewhat dis
posed to ill iise the poor hired boy and
once struck him with an ear of hard
corn and cut a deep gash over his eye.
He makes no comment upon this gen
erous act except that "Abe got mad,"
but did not thrash him.
Abe was a hand much in demand in
"hog killing time." He butchered not
only for Mr. Taylor, but for John
Woods, John Duthan, Stephen McDan
iels and others. At this he earned 31
cents a day, as it was considered
rough work.
For a long time there was only one
person in the neighborhood for whom
Abe felt a decided dislike, and that
was Josiah Crawford, who had made
him pull fodder to pay for the Weems
"Washington-" On that score he was
hurt and mad and often declared he
would have revenge. But being a poor
boy, a circumstance of which Crawford
had already taken shameful advantage
to extort three days' labor, he was glad
to get work any place and frequently
hired to his old adversary. Abe's first
business in his employ was daubing his
cabin, which was built of logs, unhewed
and with the bark on. In the loft of this
house, thus finished by his own hands,
he slept for many weeks at a time. Hfc
spent his evenings as he did at home,
writing oh 'wooden shovels or . boards
with "a coal or keel from the branch."
This family was rich in the possession
of several books, which Abe read
through time and again, according to
his usual custom.
Twenty-five Cents a Day.
I One of them was the "Kentucky Pre
ceptor, from which Mrs. Crawford- in
sists that he learned Ids chooi ora
tions, speeches and ' pieces to write.
She- tells us also that "Abo was ft sensi
tive lad. "never coming where he was
not wanted,- that he always lifted his
hat arkl tKrwed when im jomQ titew.
rjearanee, tfna that ne was tender and
kind, like his sister, who was at the
same time her maid of all work. His
pay was 25 cents a day, "and when he.
missed time he would not charge for
It" This latter remark of good Mrs.
Crawford reveals the fact that her hus
band was in the habit of docking Atw
ou hi3 miSOTle wages whenever he
-ned to lose a few minutes from
,y work. ' '
Tn time came, however, when Abe
rf his revenge for all this petty brutal
Ly. Crawford was as ugiy us he was
surly. , His nose was a .monstrosity,
loug and crooked, with a huge, mis
shapen stub at the, end, surmounted
by a host of pimples, and the whole as
blue as the usual state of Mr. Craw
ford's spirits. Upon this member Abe
leveled his attack in rhyme, song and
chronicle, and, though he could not re
duce the nose, he gave It a fame as
wide as to the Wabash and the Ohio.
It is not improbable that he learned the
art of making the doggerel rhymes in
which he celebrated Crawford's nose
from the study of Crawford's own
"Kentucky Preceptor." At all events
his sallies upon this single topic achiev
ed him great reputation as a poet and
a wit and caused Crawford intolerable
anguish.
It is likely that Abe was reconciled
to his situation in this family by the
"BIiTJE nose" cbawfokd and house abb
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nity it gave him of being in the com
pany of Mrs. Crawford, for whom he
had a genuine attachment for 'she was
nothing that her husband was and ev
erything that he was not According to
her ; account he split rails, plowed,
thrashed and did whatever else he was
ordered to do, but she distinctly affirms
that "Abe was no hand to pitch into
work like killing snakes." He went
about it calmly and generally took the
opportunity to throw Crawford down
two or three times before they went to
the field.
It is fair to presume that when Abe
managed to Inveigle his disagreeable
employer into a tussle he hoisted him
high and threw Mm hard, for he felt
that he had no reason to be careful of
his bones. After meals Abe hung
about, lingered long to gossip and joke
with the women; and these pleasant
stolen conferences were generally bro
ken up with the exclamation, "Well,
this won't buy the child a coat!" and
the long legged hired boy would stride
away to join his master.
(To be Continued.)
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less having much the same ambi
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parts with the same exaggerated
views of their own importance, as
we, who follow them 30 centuries
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