The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-09-23

g scared. Samson Traylor was here las
Z | night lookin' for ye."
+ ''rm like a deer that's been hurt,
/ said the young man. Il took to tn,
, woods. Wanted TO be alone. You see
/ had a lot of thinking to do-the kind
of thinking that every man must ds
for himself. I've got the brush cleared
away at last. so ! can see through. |
had made up my mind to go down to
your house for the night and was try
ing TO decide whether | have energy
enough 10 do It,"
Come on; It's only short step"
urged the big-hearted Bowlin.
'What ! feel the need of, just now,
is week or two of Sleep" said NJ.
Lincoln, as he rose and started down
the long hill with his friend.
| Some time later Bowlin Green gave
Samson this brief account of what
happened in and about the cabin:
HE wouldn't eat anything. He
wanted to go down to the river for a
dip and | went with him. When We
got back, | induced him to take off his
clothes and get into bed. He was fast
asleep in ten minutes. When night
came | went up the ladder to bed He
was still asleep when | came down in
the morning. | went out and did my
chores. Then cut two venison
steaks, each about the size o. my hand,
and half moon of bacon. pounded
the venison to pulp with a little salt
and bacon mixed In. | put II on the
broiler and over a bed o. hickory Goals.
| got the coffee into the pot and up
next to the fire and some potatoes in
the ashes. basted a bird with bacon
strips and put II into the rooster and
set 1t back O. the broiling bed. Then
/ made some biscuits and put em
into the oven. tell you. In a little
while the smell O. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honest Abe
began to stir. In a minute | heard
him call:
Say, Uncle Bowlin. I'm goIn' to
get up an eat you out o. house and |
home. I'm hungry and feel like a
new man. What time Is it?'
"It'll be nine O'clock by the time
you're washed and dressed | says.
Well. ] declare says he. I've had
about sixteen hours o. solid sleep. The
word looks better to me this morn
ngf
'At the table told him a story and
got little laugh out of him. He
stayed with me three weeks. choring
Iround the place and taking It easy.
lie read all the books had. until you
md Doc Allen came with the law
ooks. Then he pitched into them.
hink he has changed good deal since
mn died. He talks a lot about Ged
nd the hereafter"
In October young MFR. Lincoln re-
nrned to his surveying. and In the
lst month Of the year 10 Vandalia for
n extra session of the legislature,
here he took q stand against the con-
ention system of nominating candi-
ates for public office. Samson went
} vandalia for a visit with him and
see the place before the session end.
J. The next year. In letter to his
'0ther, he says:
"Vandalia is small. crude village.
has strong flavor OF whisky, pro-
nifty and tobacco. The night after ,
got there ! went to a banquet with
be Lincoln. Heard a LOT about the ,
I'M nigger-loving Yankees who were
wing to ruin the state. and country ,
tn abolition. There were some >
prizes like those we used to hear In Il
e lumber camp, and no end of pow :
full talk. in which the names of God
d the Savior we're roughly handled
few of the statesmen got drunk, and
Ter the dinner was over two of them
nped on the table and danced down
: whole length of IL. shatterlng
ties and cups and saucers and
Isses. Nobody seemed TO be able
stop them. | hear that they had TO
J several hundred dollars for the
mage done. You will be apt to think
( there Is too much liberty here In
West. and perhaps that is so, bat
fact is these men are not half 80
as they seem to be. Lincoln tells
that they are honest, almost foA
n, and sincerely devoted to the pub
good as they see II. ] asked Alb.
coin. who all his life has Associative
rough-tongued. drinking mn
' he managed TO hold his owr
rse and keep his talk and hanitx SC
IN.
Why. the fact is. said he. I have
)ciated with the people who iivec
md me only palT of the tima. but
e never stopped associatins with
elf and with Washington and Clay
Webster and Shakespeare and
ms and DeF"e and Scot, and
.kstone and Parsons. On the
lie, I've been IN pretty good com
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