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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
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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e. I hope I seeyou well, Mr. Pe-ters, said the law-yer, kind of smooth-like. None the bet-ter for seein you,sir, said Hen, jam-ming his mouthshut when he gotthrough so his mus-tache and whiskerswere all insertedinto each other. Now this wasno way to treat aperson from town,and Fanny begansaying how won-derful the sunsetwas last night, andasking did he eversee the moon-vineflowers pop out inbloom in the gloam-ing, and to curb herneck and step high the way they do whenthey re bitted in college. Any particlar business here? askedold Hen. Ah, yes! said Smythe. In additionto the pleasure of seeing you and your ac-complished family, I desired a conferenceas to the curious way in which that littlenote— Well, now that you ve seen my ac-complished family as much as I want youto, growled Hen, you can git. I toldyou all I m goin to about what you callmy note. But, said Fillmore, sort of like hewas currying a kicking mule, if you dconsent to look at it, I m sure it wouldall return to your mind!
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Drawn by Irma D6r6meaux WHEN WAS HER PA GOING TO PAINT THE PETERS COAT-OF-ARMSON THE HAY-RAKE AND THE HOG-HOUSE Hen fired him off the place, though,and he sued Hen. The old man was af-fected a good deal like the collie pup, andmulled it over, and got sour on the world,especially lawyers that blackmailed andforged. He said he knew well enoughthat Smythe either did it or knew whodid, and that every lawyer ought to behung. I argued for imprisonment for thefirst offense for a no-account lawyer likeSmythe, with a life sentence if it wasproved that he knew any law, and thedeath penalty for good lawyers like JudgeMcKenzie; and Hen was so mad at mefor what I said that he would nt let mehave the top buggy the next Sunday nightwhen I needed it the worst way. The big doings come off when the casecame up to be tried. I quit hauling ensi-lage, and went with Fanny and the oldfolks up to the county seat to give testi-mony that Hen never signed that note.Fanny stayed with Phoebe Relyea; butthe rest o

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