Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: family traveling through New Salem Illinois in wagon need groceries from Lincoln 's store and only thing of value is barrel of old books including law book, Fact2: man is murdered in brawl, Fact3: Lincoln prevents lynching of accused at jail by telling angry mob for first real case, Fact4: Mary Todd expresses intense interest in future, Fact5: key witness to crime is friend of victim
Output (English): A family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in their wagon need groceries from Lincolns store and the only thing of value they have is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstones Commentaries. After thoroughly reading the book, Abe opts for the law after receiving encouragement from his early, illfated love, Ann Rutledge Pauline Moore. Too poor to own even a horse, he arrives in Springfield on a mule and soon establishes a law practice with friend John Stuart Edwin Maxwell. At a July 4 celebration, a man is murdered in a brawl – the accused are two brothers. Lincoln prevents the lynching of the accused at the jail by telling the angry mob he really needs these clients for his first real case. Admiring his courage, Mary Todd Marjorie Weaver – later to be his wife – invites Lincoln to her sisters soiree and expresses an intense interest in his future. The key witness to the crime is a friend of the victim who claims to have seen the murder at a distance of about 100 yards under the light of the moon. The family and Lincoln are pressured to save one of the brothers at the expense of the others conviction. But Lincoln persists and is able, through the use of an almanac, to demonstrate that on the night in question the moon would not have provided the light the supposed eyewitness claimed. He then drives the witness to confess that he had in fact stabbed his friend himself.