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Title: The story of Abraham Lincoln : or the journey from the log cabin to the White House
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Gridley, Eleanor, 1846-1944
Subjects: Gridley, Eleanor, 1846-1944 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : L.W. Walter Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ng the boys and young men of his neighborhood. THE STUMP SPEAKER About this time he got hold of a book called The Kentucky Pre-ceptor, and from this speaker he got his inspiration for oratory. Inthe harvest field, at the noon hour, he would mount a stump and hisrough, uneducated audiences were held spellbound with the magicof his then young and no doubt crude oratory. The farm hands wouldstand about with hands jammed down into the pockets of their trousersand mouths wide open, unmindful of the flight of time, till either hisfather or his employer would seize him and drag him from the im-provised platform. Again in the evening the neighbors would gatherto hear him spout, as they called his speechmaking, and thus he wouldentertain and amuse the crowd oftentimes till after midnight. EVenat this early age he was noted for his funny and odd stories, a giftwhich he had inherited from his father, who, though shiftless and lazy,was always good natured and something of a genius in his own way.
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NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT. (By courtesy of H. W. Kay, Historical Portrait Collector, DeKalb, 111 ) This statue, which was unveiled Oct. 1.5, 1874, at Springfield. 111., represents Lincoln as holding with his left hand the Eman-cipation Proclamation and in his right hand thepen with which it had just been written.

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