New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-03
HE ASKED QUESTIONS.

ne wanted 10 know so many things that when
man would stop at their house Tom would 20 out aAd
say Light stranger the way was polite to do Abe
he'd come looping out on his long legs, throw one over
Tom'd toll him TO quit. and by'n by he'd have TO bang
him at the side OF the head 10 git him 10 stop. Then
9 hsa 70 "a Re aGa f s s ps e' S s.
questions Well reclJn wasn't born TO be polite.
He'd play Jokes on people, too
Once there was a Baptist preacher took 10 stop
pin at the house, and Abe tiled TO get him TO explain
The miracles and got the old ieler 50 worked up that
decs children p he couldn't tell lie could come home
from sermon and Tepsss. every bt Of 4 Many
church for her aferward, and she said
liz hSd to make R oE sd AMUSEMENT soq that a aTsy
Tom was Kind o shftlcss.p
daughter, spoke up Grandfather Lincoln was Just
good man as ever lived Just because he
lie made good llyin' aud gave It away TO every
body who came. He never drank nor played cards
and looked after his own clearin', but no couldn't
keep anything after he made a. You remember
in After thai he didn't seem 10 caro- until Sairy
Johnston and Strengthened things up. Inside
Of year Tom had filed tho house with pretty good
aweIl, people have different ldys about that Abo
wouldn't a-bsn the man be was Il II hadn't a.ben
fur bis mother ana sepmother. sary She said TO
him: Abe yeu g holt of sOpe muslin some'ores aud
have white shirt SO you can go to peoples houses
right So when he was only thirteen ycars old be
with which SSlry besched and made him two shirts
MyI Int he was DToud Of en. EveTyihing else he
lad was homespnn. He never had anything but
Jeans pants I'm he went 10 lawn. We lived corn
dodgers them days salt pork, game, Wild fruit sewed
In molasses and milk Abed stun his pockets full
OF dodgers and gnaw piece fur dinner aud list go
on plO1ghng There was hoss-mlll about eighteen
mnes away with plug and sweep pulled by hoss.
Abe used 10 say bis hound could eat -four EASTERN
they made IL, and then be hungry Tor supper The
old man chuckled I'm memory Of pioneer days.
Abe used TO like to talk OF them days. but II
made Mary Lincoln powerful mad. and then Abe'd
shut me up. IF Abe was low down you needn't DO
throwin' ~ up TO him., she'd say, but Trckin Abe
didn't look az Il ihat way. lie was as gentle with
skeeler. and she could dlng; He was
gether he'd fling OF his long legs upon my shoulders
and throw me so quick Il made my head swim. Trees
list fell like three men a-whackin' at them when
he got into the woods. But he never uuarrelled.
He's broke up many a rOwdy crowd by telling a story
and glttin' fem all 10 laughin. Onct fellcr told
him 70 como ON and fight. and then he lay down and
didn't speak for hall an hour-Abe made him blamed
Abe was so tall that he had to stoop to 20 into
the cabindOOr Bory was q mighty clean woman
and kept everything whitewashed. She used 10 tell
Abe that his feet being clean didn't matter half so
much as hts head because she conld scour the -four
but She didn't want IFS head rubbing all around her
white ceiling l remember once he got all the young
uns, dipped their feet IN The mud then turned 'cm up
ins them ascrcamin' with laughter, ana
sot down and laughed though she said Abe ought to
be- spanked He wbltowashed the ceiling for her
whittier than ever lie fist used 20 make The neigh
borhoOd howl with his yarns, and bet he made up
e ~ started little crossroads store near here. and