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... day , during every one of those thirteen years , this Kentucky boy might have been seen with a long " gad " in his hand , driving his father's team in the field , My or from the woods with a heavy draught , or ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 19.
... day , during every one of those thirteen years , this Kentucky boy might have been seen with a long " gad " in his hand , driving his father's team in the field , My or from the woods with a heavy draught , or ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 19.
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... hand . An incident having its appropriate connection here , and illustrating several traits of the man , as already developed in carly boyhood , is vouched for by a citizen of Evans- ville , who knew him in the days referred to . In his ...
... hand . An incident having its appropriate connection here , and illustrating several traits of the man , as already developed in carly boyhood , is vouched for by a citizen of Evans- ville , who knew him in the days referred to . In his ...
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... hand at flat - boating . IIe sailed down the Ohio and the Mississippi on a raft , doing service as one of the labor- ers . Naturally lively and fond of a joke , the vocation rather improved his faculties of humor . He worked , sang ...
... hand at flat - boating . IIe sailed down the Ohio and the Mississippi on a raft , doing service as one of the labor- ers . Naturally lively and fond of a joke , the vocation rather improved his faculties of humor . He worked , sang ...
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... hand at the busi- ness . His first lessons were taken while yet a boy in In- diana . For some unexplained reason , the family did not remain . on this place but a single year . Abraham was now of age , and when , in the spring of 1831 ...
... hand at the busi- ness . His first lessons were taken while yet a boy in In- diana . For some unexplained reason , the family did not remain . on this place but a single year . Abraham was now of age , and when , in the spring of 1831 ...
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... hands to aid him in a flat - boat voyage down the Mississippi . The fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the oc- casion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital ...
... hands to aid him in a flat - boat voyage down the Mississippi . The fact was known that the youth had once made such a trip , and his services were sought for the oc- casion . As one who had his own subsistence to earn , with no capital ...
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