know so president springfield his family his neighbors and his law  for sixteen hundred dollars each of course this house was five years old and he didn't have the full second story you see now mr lincoln added that latest not now don't he come about oh you'll ruin my was life or something  we don't have many pictures of mary per family was quite well off and i'm sure you've heard the rumor that they weren't too happy about her marrying abraham by the way don't call him a job he hates that the db thing is only politics all right we realize of course because we have to sit close this late for such a long time to make these pictures you almost never see anybody except in a formal poster here of so many of the omo the lincoln is for a mole i hear a darn good housekeeper but little harsh on the boy sometimes but mr lincoln's good humor and patience more than make up for that leading forty seven he rented this house for the year the family was in washington and got ninety dollars rent for the year well i've got to go and prepare my workplace it may be difficult to imagine mr lincoln taking the stairs two at a time or to hear the lincoln boys racing up and down playing as boys will do on rainy days or to imagine mrs lincoln and her maid preparing an evening meal how quiet this part of looks now and how alive it was when the committee met here to tell mr lincoln he was nominated to run for president of the united states if the walls could only talk and reveal those secret things they know what was it like when mr lincoln left a group of political friends at the telegraph office to hurry home to tell mary he had been elected president when she please no i don't like that i guess you've got to remember those issues are settled community by the time the lincoln did leave you nearly twenty years maybe this neighborhood has a better representation of crashes of people than most and i don't know well of course we have a very fine neighborhood and this is our state auditor's mr du bois oh and dr ross he's another brother in law lives right down the street on the other corner jessie can't oh yes a very nice settled community and the lincolns were such good neighbors i was sort of sorry to see them go even if he did get to be president mr lincoln tried over two hundred forty cases before the state supreme court and many of them were landmark this is many people don't know that they think we're still lincoln was a kind of country boy  he had a great influence on the interpretation of the laws and the way the law is administered and don't forget he had a political career to elected to the state legislatures didn't congress and those debates wi certainly i know abraham don't call him meat and that was something invented for the campaign when he was here in springfield you called him abraham if you knew him well mr lincoln if you didn't  where abraham and he's you your partner billy heard and practiced law only have a few pictures of birds and none while he was associated here they were taken later have a good picture of the first law partners it was while a junior partner with john todd stewart that abraham learned much of his law when stewart went off to congress we'll it was a good chance for a smart young partner who had to handle the business to meet some united states lincoln i suppose you'd notice he didn't start raising a beard until just before he left no good not here in springfield remember now you must remain absolutely do you can't move so much as an eyebrow are you ready