| 1898 - 686 pages
...this direction, I returned to the War Department. "Well.whatsayshe?" asked Mr. Stanton. " He says that when you have got an elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." " Oh, stuff! " said Stanton. That night I was awaked from a sound sleep... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - United States - 1898 - 324 pages
...asked. " He says arrest him, but that I should refer the question to you." " Well," said the President slowly, wiping his hands, " no, I rather think not....When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he's trying to run away, it's best to let him run." With this direction, I returned to the War Department.... | |
| Rufus Rockwell Wilson - United States - 1901 - 446 pages
...the answer. " Well," said Lincoln, slowly, wiping his hands ; " no, I rather think not. When you have an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." Thompson was not arrested. Late in the afternoon the President set out for... | |
| James Harrison Wilson - Journalists - 1907 - 576 pages
...the matter to the President. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, " No, I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run I"1 That night, while at the play, Lincoln received his death wound at the... | |
| Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...the matter to the president. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, "No; I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." — WILSON. In my interview with him the name came up of a recently deceased... | |
| Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...the matter to the president. As soon as the latter understood the question to be answered, he said, "No; I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." — WILSON. In шу interview with him the name came up of a recently deceased... | |
| Frank Michael O'Brien - Sun (New York, N.Y. : 1833) - 1918 - 542 pages
...commissioner who was trying to go from Canada to Europe through Maine. Lincoln returned the historic reply : " No, I rather think not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run ! " A few hours after the President's death, however, Stanton ordered Dana... | |
| John William Starr - Presidents - 1922 - 138 pages
...refer the question to you." "Well," answered Lincoln slowly, wiping his hands, "no; I rather guess not. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." And with this direction Dana returned to his chief. The President rejoining... | |
| E. W. Coggeshall - Presidents - 1924 - 116 pages
...was washing his hands : "Hello, Dana ! What is it? What's up?" "What does Stanton say?" Mr. Lincoln asked. "He says arrest him, but that I should refer...elephant by the hind leg and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run." "Well, what says he?" asked Stanton when Dana returned to the war department.... | |
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