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HE KNEW LINCOLN
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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| “Come and set by the stove by the hour and tell stories and talk and argue” | 4 |
| “Horace Greeley, he came in here to buy quinine” | 16 |
| “Aunt Sally, you couldn’t a done nuthin’ which would have pleased me better” | 18 |
| “He just talked to us that time out of his heart” | 24 |
| “You’re actin’ like a lot of cowards. You’ve helped make this war, and you’ve got to help fight it” | 26 |
| “We went out on the back stoop and sat down and talked and talked” | 30 |
HE KNEW LINCOLN
“Did I know Lincoln? Well,I should say. See thatchair there? Take it, setdown. That’s right. Comfortable,ain’t it? Well, sir, Abraham Lincolnhas set in that chair hours, him andLittle ‘Doug,’ and Logan and JudgeDavis, all of ’em, all the big men in thisState, set in that chair. See them marks?Whittlin’. Judge Logan did it, all-firedestman to whittle. Always cuttin’ away atsomething. I just got that chair new, paidsix dollars for it, and I be blamed if Ididn’t come in this store and find himslashin’ right into that arm. I picked upa stick and said: ‘Here, Judge, s’posin’you cut this.’ He just looked at me and4then flounced out, mad as a wet hen.Mr. Lincoln was here, and you ought toheard him tee-hee. He was always here.Come and set by the stove by the hourand tell stories and talk and argue. I’druther heard the debates them men hadaround this old stove than heard Websterand Clay and Calhoun and the wholeUnited States Senate. There wan