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Title: The story of young Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Whipple, Wayne, 1856-1942
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry Altemus 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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nj^hing to accommodate anybody. DEFENDING THE LITE OF A BOY HE HAD ROCKED When Mrs. Armstrongs baby boy grew tomanhood he got into deep trouble. He was ar-rested for murder. His mother was a poorwidow and had no money to defend her son.Lawyer Lincoln, then living in Springfield, andknown as a successful jury pleader, wrote andoffered his services in behalf of the child he hadrocked, **without money and without price, be-cause the mother had been kind to him in daysgone by. It became a celebrated case. Mr. Lincoln se-cured his acquittal by showing that there was aconspiracy on the part of the young mans ac-cusers, one of whom testified that he saw*^Buck Armstrong strike the fatal blow by thebright light of the moon. Lawyer Lincoln, afterdrawing the witness out and making him de-scribe minutely what he had seen, suddenly pro-duced an almanac proving that there was nomoon in the sky at that time I The tears of that widowed mother and thegratitude of the boy he had rocked were the best206
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HE USED TO CARRY THE BOY PICK-A-BACK. Abraham Lincoln sort of pay to Lawyer Lincoln for an act of kind-ness and life-saving. just whats the matter with the wholeworld! A Springfield neighbor used to say that it wasalmost a habit with Mr. Lincoln to carry hischildren about on his shoulders. Indeed, theman said he seldom saw the tall lawyer go bywithout one or both boys perched on high or tug-ging at the tails of his long coat. This neighborrelates that he was attracted to the door of hisown house one day by a great noise of cryingchildren, and saw Mr. Lincoln passing with thetwo boys in their usual position, and both werehowling lustily. *Why, Mr. Lincoln, whats the matter? heasked in astonishment. *Just whats the matter with the wholeworld, the lawyer replied coolly. **Ive gotthree walnuts, and each wants two. THE bucking Several years later Judge Treat, of Spring-field was playing chess with Mr. Lincoln in his207 The Story of Young law office when Tad came in to call his father tosup

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