The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-14

MS long arms reaching toward me. The
water which Yves so deop TO ua was
easy Wacing for Uncle Ale. and be came
TO me as fast as he could run. a s. Ia1-,
II IS indAlna him remind nae OH some
great |ad-ng bird. lie dshcd me out
hurriedly and called that llauIy's duck
ms. Always after he asked me about
the ducking when we met and the last
time | saw him he said:
Nancy have you ever forgotten The
cCcklng you got I'm kicEapo1 Or el.'
Uncle Abe loved to talk. Tie st
TAXED 10 everybody We used to l.ar
pAat when ne was Il tide fellow lie
would Work in the ielI win his fa-a -.
and that whenever anyone passed n
the road Abe would always quit ucrl
ana so to tie fence AMI talk AGe s.
sad to have been so eager to talk
tAat he would speak no BEFORE his
iather could say a word They used TO
tell 1t Of him that this uld make his
Ialher mad, and that many times. w1en
they were working in the field and lJe
Jumped up on the fence AMI cut his
father out Of the first word with
ne.ghbor or stranger passing by his
father would pick up big clod and
knock littie Abe off the fence, crying:
Let older people have the first saw
will YOU, boy?
Uncle Abe always wanted to b.v
something for us when he came. ana
always asked US WLa- We Wa.teu C-c
time l wanted a paras7l, the last th.Ig
IN the world / needed. He bought mo
one gaudy enough to suit M child sh
fancy. At another time he bouch. me q
le3hoIn hat. lie was very generous
with US, and was also TO his father and
his stepmother giving them SO o. SIS
every time We went down there Tn
him
Il remember the first time ever
heard Uncle Abe talk about the slaves.
He came to our house after trip down
the river. He had been, 1 think. IA
Louisiana, and had seen slaves pit NON
the block to be auctloned off like cattle.
and made quite a speech to us about T.
telling how It. had angered him to see
human beings Sold i'm the ma ket Ike
animals. He told about mU- ito sri
he saw. She was fine looking woman,
and was compelled to walk up and down
on the block exercising TX horse is
exercised before he is bought. tn-ie
Abe was indignant ana he Oil not tell
Us that story as we had been accus-
toned to hearing him tell stories He
threw into it an In lgna tion and sp rlS
we had never seen in him before Aft
onward we understood what it was that
made him a national leader, even if Re
like to tell stories better than an thing
else Uncle Abe was another man wacu
he was aroused
when Uncle Abe would come into the
house on his visits he would CAL out:
." Here 1 am; amt you glad to see
me?'
Uncle Abe made my father promise
he would come to Washington and visit
him when he had become president
My father finally did go. He went 10
the White house, and was &c, ern.nei 10
walk right in without knocking or even
paying his respects to the guards They
stopped him and he was quite indignant,
telling them he was Dennis Hanks, and
had a free run any pla where Alb. Linz
coin might lie. Mr.. Lincoln came oIt,
and when he saw father he threw mis-
arms around him and hugged him lie
was so glad When they had looked
each other over, father sad to uncle
Abe:
Abe, where in the world did you set
that thing?' pointing to a gold watch
fob Uncle Abe was wearing
" Oh, I have to fix up considerably
here in Washington. Uncle Abe said