Norwich bulletin., 1911-02-16
INDOORS AND OUT OF -D OORS'
A Boys and Girls Department

you get close to N, it will not matter whether there is a letter to spare or letter short, you will know 1t. Uncle Jed thanks all who made such cure a Little Lamb'' puzzle. Take right hold of tIiis one with a will, and the story will almost tell itself. for you all must know 1t
 UNCLE JED. HIDDEN WORD PUZZLE AM SEVERED. Answers to Word Puzzle, Feb. 3: Abraham Lincoln. Emancipator. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin. He was very poor when young, but became a great and good man. He was president of the United States Richard ". Tobin. age g. 268 Frank lin street, Norwich.
 Abraham Lincoln,
 Fearless and brave. Will always be honored As the friend of the slave Lillian Callahan. age II. 145 Boswell avenue, Norwich
 l Abraham Lincoln was a great man
 and president of the Unified States during the civil war. He freed tha slaves. What I like best to read of Lincoln is his childhood and youth.
 NAAEA HE WdS young He Hau 10 WQrK l hard and did not have much chance to go to school. At night when they all slept he would get up and study. He had to walk miles to get books to read, because his parents were very poor. F Henrietta Burley, age Il, Plain1eid. Conn.
 Abraham Lincoln, En1ancipator, Oh! for such another, Who would provide us water nt to drink
 Before the scorching weather. Alfred Horigan. age F. Mt. Pleasant
 street, Norwich. Ca Hill-Topper). Lincoln was a very poor boy, but loved to read and study, which he oft en did by the light of a fireplace. He used to be a rail- splitter and store boy, and after some years he became a lawyer and then one of the most honored and martyred presidents. He was the great friend of the slaves, whom he set free.-Clifford IT. Rogers, age 2. 25 Penobscot street. city. Abraham Linco1n, the emancipator and sixteenth president of the United States, was born in Kentucky Feb. 12, 1909. He was the son of poor parents and lived in the backwoods in log cabin He being poor boy, he had to go to work when he was young and COuf0 kIOt SO tO SCItOOl very HluEl. on Jan. I, 1885, he proclaimed freedom for all the slaves in the southern states. He was man who always did his duty and he was very kind and good to the people poorer than himsa salf.-Ellen M. Connolly, age T, Norwich. Abraham Lincoln was great man. He was thorough and honest. He was asked to save woman's son in trial for murder One of the witnesses said he had seen the murder by moonlight. Abraham Lincoln opened an almanac and showed the moon had not risen when the murder was committed The boy was not guilty.--Alfred Merrill, age 10. Garfield avenue. Norwich How Lincoln Paid for Life of Wash inuton.
 Abraham Lincoln would liked to have solved puzzles for books; but he could not get them so easy as that. Once he borrowed book from a farmer. Ii
 was the life of Washington. When he was through reading 1t he laid it be- tween log where he thought 1t would be safe. In the night storm arose and soaked the book. Abraham did not try to get out of 1t, but took 1t to the farmer and asked him how he could pay for it. The farmer said: You can pull fiber for three days, then the book will be yours" That IS the way Abraham Lincoln bought his first. book.
 Mary had a little lamb
 Black as a rubber shoe; It was little Persian lamb. 1