"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) (1901) (14743625726)

Identifier: abelincolnsyar3369mccl (find matches)
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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of the firm fell entirely upon Lincoln. Many ofthese debts he might have escaped legally, but he assumed them all andit was not until fifteen years later that the last indebtedness of Lincoln &Berry was discharged. During his membership in this firm he had appliedhimself to the study of law, beginning at the beginning, that is with Black-stone. Now that he had nothing to do he spent much of his time lyingunder the shade of a tree poring over law books, borrowed from a comradein the Blackhawk War, who was then a practicing lawyer at Springfield. GAINS FAME AS A STORY TELLER. It was about this time, too, that Lincolns fame as a story-teller beganto spread far and wide. His sayings and his jokes were repeated throughoutthat section of the country, and he was famous as a story-teller before anyoneever heard of him as a lawyer or a politician. It required no little moral courage to resist the temptation that besetan idle young man on every hand at that time, for drinking and carousing
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