The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-23
AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT

AT THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.
(Rem nisc6nces of the Hon. Jason Pettigrew OF
Calhoun County, ILL.,
Abe Lincoln! Wull, | reckon! Not mile Pom
where we be,
Right here in Springfield, Ilnoise. Abe used 10
room with me.
He represented Sangamon, 1 tried it fer Cal
houn,
An me an Abe was cronies then; I'll not fer
get IL soon.
I'll not forget them happy days we used to sort
o. batch
Together in little room that didn't have no
To keep the other fellers out that liked to come
and stay.
An hear them dasted funny things Abe Lincoln
used to say.
Them days Abe Lincoln an myself was pore as
anything,
Jobs turkeys wasn't porer; but we used to laff
and sing,
An Abe was clean chuck full o. fun; but he was
sharp as lacks,
Fer that there comic face o. his'n was fortified
with fac's.
boots and pants
Appeared TO be on distant terms, but when he'd
git a chance
He'd give 'em sech n drubbin' that they'd clean
fergit his looks;
Fer Abe made up in common-sense the things
he lacked in books.
wull, mex election got beat, an Abe come
back alone;
kept a-cllnkln' on the farm, pervidin' fer my
own.
You see had a woman an two twins that called
me paw,
An Abe he KEEP a-clinkn'. too, at politics an
law.
didn't hear much more Of Abe out there in
ole Calhoun,
Fer was out o. politics and kind o. out o. tune,
18th things that happened but way back, I'D
named my two twin boys
One Abraham, one Lincoln; finest team In
Illinoise!
wul, here one day read that Abe's among the
candidates
CNy ole friend Abe) fer President o. these
United States;
An though had the rheumatic an felt run
down an blue
entered politics again, and helped to pull him
through.
An when, mex spring, he called fer men to
fetch their grit an guns
An keep the ship o. state aflOat, sent him
both my sons,
1t hadn't been l couldn't walk account o.
rheumatic.
wull, Abe, my little Abe, mean. he started out
with Grant;
They buried him at Shiloh. Excuse me. but l
can't
Help feen, father-like you know, fer them was
likely boys;
The WASH two another sech that went fom
IIlinoise.
An Lincoln. my son Lincoln. he went on by his
self
A-grievn' fer his brother Abe they'd laid upon
the Shelf
An when he comes to vicksburg he was all
thrashed out an sick;
An yit when there was nghtln', Link fit right in
the Thick
One night afore them rebel guns my pore hoy
went TO sleep
on picket duty; no, sir, tai the shame that
makes me weep;
It's how Abe Lincoln. President, at Washing
ton, ID. c.,
Had time to rIcolleck the days he used to room
tn me.
For don't you know. wrote to him they d SEN
fenced 10 be shot
His namesakc, Lincoln Pettigrew. in shame to
die an rot;
The son II his old crony an the last O. the twin
boys
lie used to plague me so about, at sprlnghel',
llinoise.
Did he? Did Abe? Wull. now. he sent a tele-
graph quick
II burnt them bottles on the poles an made the
lghtnin' sick!
Pardon fer Lincoln Pettgrew. A. Lincoln,
President"
The boy has got the paper yt, the telegraph
Abe sent.
/ guess I knowed Abe Lincoln! an now I've
come down here,
FRS time I've been in springdeP fer nearly
sixty year,
To see his grave an tombstone, because-be-
cause. you see,
We Ie-islaged in cahoots, Abe Lincoln did an
me,
-R8bcrtlis u. Lore IN the NclC York sun