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Title: Anecdotes of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln's stories : including early life stories, professional life stories, White House stories, war stories, miscellaneous stories
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 McClure, J. B. (James Baird), 1832-1895
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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nd always available on every possible occasion. Perhaps therenever lived a greater story-teller than Abraham Lincoln, and one whotold them always with such magic effect. With him, the appropriatestory was B^power, and his remarkable faculty in telling them was anessential factor in his greatness. In this volume the compiler has aimed to present, in a convenientlyclassified form, the Anecdotes and Stories of this wonderful man, asnarrated by him to the lowly and the great, in peace and war, at thefireside and bar, in the wilderness and White-house, with that zest andpotency which made Mr. Lincoln such a remarkable man. It is oursincere desire thai in this form the book may be of real interest andprove a further means of usefulness to every reader. Our indebtedness is specially acknowledged for aid found in F. B.Carpenters Six Months in the White-house; J. G. Hollands Lifeof Lincoln; the Press, and to the many friends who have contributed. J. B. McCLURE. Chicago, III., January 1, 18^ *,
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EARLY LIFB. A Batch of Lincolns Reminiscences 49 A Hard Tussle with Seven Negroes—Life on a Mississippi Flat Boat 27 A Humorous Speech—Lincoln in the Black Hawk War 39 A Pig Story—Lincolns Kindness to the Brute Creation 26 An Honest Boy—Young Lincoln Pulls Fodder Two Days for a Damaged Book 14 An Incident of Lincolns Early Hardships 18 An Incident or Two Illustrating Lincolns Honesty 22 Captain Lincoln—How he Became Captain 38 Elected to the Legislature—Lincoln Walks to the State Capitol... 41 General Linders Early Recollections of Lincoln 46 How Lincoln Earned his First Dollar 13 How Lincoln Helped to Build a Boat—How he Loaded the Live Stock 23 How Lincoln Piloted a Flat Boat over a Mill Dam 34 Lincoln and his Gentle Annie—A Touching Incident 20 Lincolns First Political Speech _ 40 Lincolns Marriage—Some very Interesting Letters 44 Lincolns Mechanical Ingenuity—His Patent Boat 31 Lincolns Mother—How he Loved Her.. 45 Lincoln Splits Several Hundred Rails for a P