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Üwent to School to-gether ÜHazel Dorsy & Andw Crawford ÜDorzey Kept ‚rst, I think: he kept school near the Pigeon Meeting house Üabout 11Ö4 miles from Thos Lincolns and south or SE of his his. Crawford (Andw) taught school next: he taught about 1Ö4 East of the Pigeon School Meeting house. Dorsey Keept School before the Marriage of Aaron Grigsby ÜSo did Crawford ÜCrawford Kept soon after Dorsey Üsay the next year. Our School were Kept in the fall and winter, working in the Summer. Lincoln went to school to these 2 men about four winters Üdidn't go steady ÜI didn't go to school to Swany ÜLincoln had a strong mind. I was older than he was by 6 years and further advanced Übut he soon outstript me. We Studied lst in Dilworths Spelling book Ü2d in Websters2 ÜLincoln Studied arithmetic Üno geography Ünor grammar ÜLincoln read the life of Washington Üthe Pilgrims Progress Robinson Crusoe Üthe Bible Üthe new Testament Ühymn Books ÜWatts hymns & Dupuy's.3 Üthink that news papers as Early as 1828¬30 ÜSaw Sarah Lincoln many times Üshe was a woman of ordinary size ÜHave seen Mordecai Lincoln Ühe came to Indiana on a visit about 1822 or 3 Ühe was the oldest brother ÜSarah Lincoln had a good mind, but I did not Know her so well as I did Abe: She married Aaron Grigsby Ü. We had but few books at that time and our opportunities were poor Ü
Abe Lincoln was a moral boy Üwas temperate ÜSometimes he took his dram as Every body did at that time: he was honest: he was an industrious boy Ühe didn't love physical work Üwouldn't do it if was agreeable to all Üalways was reading, studying, & thinking ÜTaking all in all he was not a lazy man. Lincoln Sometimes hunted on Sundays ÜWhat Lincoln read he read and re-read Ü read & Studied thoroughly Ü. He was generally at the head of all his classes whilst at school Üin fact was nearly always so ÜHe loved ‚shing & hunted Some Ünot a great deal ÜHe was naturally Cheerful and good natured while in Indiana: Abe was a long tall raw boned boy. Üodd and gawky ÜHe had hardly attained 6 ft - 4 in when he left Indiana Üweighed about 160 ÜI bought the hogs & corn of Thomas Lincoln when he was leaving for Ills ÜBought about 100 and about 400 or 5 hundred bushes of corn Üpaid 10 c per bushel for the Corn Ühogs lumped ÜLincoln when a boy wore buckskin Üfor pants Üwore Coon skin Caps Ü Sometimes fox Skin & possum Skin Caps Ü Buckskin was a Common dress at that time. When Lincoln was going about he read Everything that he could lay his hands on and it is more than probable that he read the Louisville Journal4 as well as other papers before he left Indiana and as before remarked what he read he read well and thoroughly ÜNever forgetting what he read Ü
Mr. N. Grigsby Üsays he now remembers that L. read newspapers ÜThat they were Introduced about the time Col Jones came to Gentryville5 The Lincoln's
2. For Dilworth, see Ñ76, note 1; for Webster, see Ñ76, note 3.
3. For Life of Washington, see Ñ24, note 15, and Ñ71, note 16; John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come (1678); for Robinson Crusoe, see Ñ74, note 2; for Watts's Hymns and Dupuy, see Ñ72, note 6.
4.
The Louisville Journal began publication after the Lincolns had left Indiana. See Ñ231.
5.
This sentence is in the margin.
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