Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-11-04

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scared Samson Traylor was here last
night iookin' for ye"
I'm like a deer that's been hurt
said the young man. II took TO the
woods wanted TO be alone. You see.
had lot of thinking to do.the kind
Of thinking that every man must do
for himself I've got the brush cleared
away Gt 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 to do IT,"
Come on; it's only a short STEP"
urged the big-hearted Bowlin.
What l feel the need of, just now,
is a week or two Of Sleep" said Mr.
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 &c down to the river for
dip, and 1 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. l went out and did my
chores. Then l cut two venIson
steaks, each about the size o. my hand.
and half moon of bacon. l pounded
the venison to pulp with q little salt
and bacon mixed in l put it on the
broiler ana over bed o hickory Goals.
l got the coffee into the pot ana Up
next to the fire and some potatoes in
the ashes. l basted a bird with bacon
strips and put it into the rooster and
set 1t back o. the brOiling bed Then
l made some biscuits and put em
into the oven. l tell you, in a little
while the smell O. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honestl Abe
began to stir. In a minute / hesrd
| him call:
"'Say. Uncle Bowlin, I'm goin' to
get up an eat you out o. house and
home. I'm hungry and 1 feel like
new man. What time is itY
"Tt1l be nine o'clock by the time
you're washed and dressed l says.
"'Well, l declare says he, I've had
about sixteen hours O. solid sleep. The
world looks better to me this morn
ing
'At the table I told him story and
got a little laugh out of him. He
stayed with me three weeks, choring
around the place and taking 1t easy.
He read all the books had, until you
and Doc Allen came with the law
books. Then he pitched into them.
think he has changed good deal since
Ann died. He talks a lot about God
and the hereafter"
In October young Mr.. Lincoln re-
turned to his surveying, and in the
last month of the year to Vandalia for
an extra session Of the legislature,
where he took a stand against the con-
vention system of nominating candi-
dates for public Office. Samson went
TO Vandalia for a visit with him and
to see the place before the session end
ed. The next year. in letter to his
brother, he says:
1t has q strong flavor Of whisky, pro-
| family and tobacco. The night after
| l got there l went TO a banquet with
| Abe Lincoln. Heard q lot about the
dam nigger-loving Yankees who were
trying to ruin the state and country
with abolition. There were some
! stories like those we used to hear in
the lumber camp, and no end of pow
| erful talk, In which the names of God
and the Savior we're roughly handled.
| A few of the statesmen got drunk, and
after the dinner was over two of them
| jumped on the table and danced down
the whole length of it, shatterlag
plates and cups ana sa2cers and
| glasses. Nobody seemed to be able
to stop them. ] hear that they had to
| pay several hundred dollars for the
damage done. You will &C apt to think
that there is too much liberty here In
the West. and perhaps that is so, but
the fact is these men are not half so
bad as they seem 10 be. Lincoln tells
me that they are honest, almost to q
| man, and sincerely devoted to the pub
lie good as they see it. asked Abe
Lincoln, who all his life has associated
with rough-tongued, drinking men,
how he managed to hold his own
! course and keep his talk aud habits SO
clean
"'Why, the fact IS said he, I have
associated with the people who lived
around me only part Of the time, but 1
| have never stopped assOciatng with
myself and with Washington and Clay
ard Webster and Shakespeare and
Burns and DeFoe and Scott and
! Blackstone and Parsons. On the
whole, I've been In pretty good com
| pany.'
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