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Title: "Abe" Lincoln's yarns and stories : a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller (excerpts)
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : International Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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ers. BOOTH SHOT BY BOSTON CORBETT. The last orders given to the squad pursuing Booth were: **Dont shootBooth, but take him alive. Just as Booth started to the door of the barnthis order was disobeyed by a sergeant named Boston Corbett, who firedthrough a crevice and shot Booth in the neck. The wounded man wascarried out of the barn and died four hours afterward on the grass wherethey had laid him. Before he died he whispered to Lieutenant Baker, Tellmother I died for my country; I thought I did for the best. ■What became of Booths body has always been and probably always willbe a mystery. Many different stories have been told concerning his finalresting place, but all that is known positively is that the body was firsttaken to Washington and a post-mortem examination of it held on theMonitor Montauk. On the night of April 27th it was turned over to twomen who took it in a rowboat and disposed of it secretly. How they dis-posed of it none but themselves know and they have never told.
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Palestine Morocco Style. Handsomely Em-bossed Antique, with Gilt Title, MarbledEdges. A Very Rich and Handsome Binding $2.25 ♦^»-»»» ♦♦♦♦♦■« ♦^ ♦♦ 8 ►♦♦♦♦•♦-»-»^» ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ >♦ ♦♦ 11 **Abe Lincolns Yarns and Stories tj ILLUSTRATED WITH Hundreds of Funny Pictures, Rare and HumorousCartoons, also Portraits and Biographies o_fthe Famous Men o_f Lincolns Time WITH INTRODUCTION AND ANECDOTESBY COLONEL ALEXANDER K. McCLURE OF THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES THE FAMOUS JOXmNALIST, AND FBIEXD AND ASYISKB OF PBESIDENX IINCOLN A Complete Collection of the Yarns, Stories, Anecdotes, Witty and Humor-ous Sayings and Personal Experiences of AbrahamLincoln, from his early youth in the Backwoods to the White House. Witty and Humorous Stories Told by Lincoln, SfsXtV^ew and never before published, illustrating every phase of his great career, which gave himfame as the greatest story teller that ever lived. A Life of Lincoln Told by Himsel

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