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Trading Trip-His First Dollar for Service-Looking higher-Call on
Mr. Woods - Disappointed Hope - Another Log-cabin-The
Statutes of Indiana-Studying and Reading at David Turnham's
—Going to Court—The Murder Trial—Meeting the Shelby Boy
and President―The Gentryville Lyceum-Questions Discussed—
Place for the Enslaved-Abe's Appearance-Centre of Attraction
--The Foolish Act and the Outcome-How he Learned-Dennis
Hanks' Eulogy-Talk of Removing to Illinois

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The Families to Remove-How they Went-Abe of Age-Will not
Leave his Father and Mother-Scripps-His Description of Mov-
ing-Two Hundred Miles—Bad Roads and Swollen Streams—
The Kaskaskia-Uncle John's House-The Spot to Settle-
Building a Log-house-The Fifteen Acres-Ploughing, Rail-
splitting, and Fencing-Mrs. Brown's Story, and Abe's Bedfellow
-George Chase's Story-Splitting Rails, and Reading-Attacked
by Fever and Ague-Useful-A Hard Winter

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Going to New Salem-Waiting-Acting as Polling Clerk-Going on
Flatboat to Beardstown-Offutt coming with Goods-Installed
"Storekeeper "-Care of Saw-mill too-W. G. Green, Assistant
Clerk-His Popularity in the Store-His Honesty-Examples of
it-Silencing the Drunken Bully-Minter Graham and Pinkham's
Grammar-How Abraham Found and Studied it-Lamon's Words
-Studied in Cooper's Shop-Great Progress—Talk with Alley—
His Estimate of Grammar-Meeting Richard Bates-Spilling the
Milk and Breaking Bowl-A Noble Trait-Mastered Grammar—
Its Blessing to him thereafter

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