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he read it Üit Struck him: he said he wanted it to send to a Temperance paper in Ohio for publication: it was sent and published I saw the printed piece Ü read it with pleasure over and over again. This was in 1827 Üor 8. The political article I Showed to John Pitcher an attorney of Posey Co Indiana who was travelling on the circuit Üon law business Üand stopt at my house over night: he read it carefully and asked me where I got it. I told him that one of my neighbor boys wrote it: he couldn't believe it till I told him that Abe did write it. Pitcher lived in Mt Vernon Indiana. Pitcher in fact was struck with the article and Said to me this
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¿The world can't beat it.îHe begged for it ÜI gave it to him and it was published Ücan't say what paper it got into ÜKnow it was published. Abe was always a man though a boy. I never knew him to swear: he would say to his play fellows and other boys ÜLeave off your boyish ways and be more like men. Abe got his mind and ‚xd morals from his good mother. Mrs Lincoln was a very smart
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intelligent and intellectual woman: She was naturally Strong minded Üwas a gentle, Kind and tender woman Üa Christian of the Babtist persuasion ÜShe was a remarkable woman truly and indeed. I do not think she absolutely died of the Milk Sickness Entirely. Probably this helped to seal her fate.
Abe came to my house one day and stood around about timid & Shy. I Knew he wanted Something. I said to him ÜAbe what is your Case. Abe replied Ü¿Uncle I want you to go to the River Ü(the Ohio) and give me Some recommendation to some boat.îI remarked Ü¿Abe Üyour age is against you Ü you are not 21. yet.î¿I Know that, but I want a start said Abeî. I concluded not to go for the boys good Üdid not go. I saw merchants in Rock-Port and mentioned the Subject to them. In 1829 Ü this was
Abe read the news papers of the day Üat least such as I took. I took the Tele-scope.2 Abe frequently borrowed it. I remember the paper now. I took it from about 1825. to 1830 Üif not longer. Abe worked for me on this rigde Ü(on this road leading from Gentryville to Elizabeth ÜDale P. Of‚ce place.). Abe whip sawed
ÜSaw him cutting down a large tree one day: I asked him what he was going to do with it: he said he was going to saw it into plank for his fathers new house The year was 1828 or 9. Abe could sink an axe deeper in wood than any man I Ever Saw. Abe cut the tree down and he and one Levi Mills whip sawed it into plank. As I Said the plank was for Lincoln's new house: the house was not Completed till after Lincoln left for Ills. The house that Lincoln lived in is gone. Abe sold his plank to Crawford, the book man.3 The book story is substantially Correct. Josiah Crawford put the lumber in his house where it is now to be seen in the South East room (I Sat on this plank myself Üate a good dinner at Mrs. Crawford's: Mrs C is a lady Üis a good woman Üquite intelligent) Abe wrote Poetry. a good deal, but I can't recollect what about Except one piece which was Entitled the ¿Neighborhood broilîAbe always brought his pieces Üprose or Poetry to me straight. I thought more of Abe than any boy I Ever Saw: he was a strong man Üphysical
2. The Telescope was published in New York (1824¬30).
3. Josiah Crawford, who loaned AL a Life of Washington, as distinguished from Andrew Crawford, one of AL's schoolteachers.
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