The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-09-15

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scared. SamsoR Traylor was here last
night lookin' for ye."
"Tm like a deer that's been hurt"
said the young man. II took to the
woods. Wanted to be alone. You see.
I had lot of thinking to do-the kind
Of thinking that every man must do
for himself. I've got the brush cleared
away. at last. so I can see through.
had made up my mind to go down to
your house for the night and was try
ing to decide whether I have energy
enough TO do IT,"
"Come on; It's only n 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 Bowlln 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 wo
got back, I induced him to take OF his
clothes and get into bed. He was fast
asleep In ten minutes. When night
came I 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. I pounded
the venlson to pulp with a little salt
and bacon mixed in. put II on the
broller 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 1t into the rooster and
set II back O. the broIllng bed. Then
| made some biscuits and put 'em
into the oven. tell you. I'm little
while the smell o. that fireplace would
have woke the dead-honest Abe
began to stir. In a minute I heard
him call:
"'Say, Uncle Bowlln. I'm goln' 20
get up an eat you out o. house and
home. I'm hungry and feel like a
new man. What time is lt?'
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you're washed and dressed says.
well. | declare says he. I've had
about sixteen hours o. solid sleep. The
world looks better to me this morn
ing
AT the table told him story and
got little laugh out of him. He
stayed with me three weeks. chOrlng
around the place and taking II 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 a good deal since
Ann died. He talks 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 stand against the con.
ventlon system of nominating candi.
dates for public Office. Samson went
10 Vandalia for visit with him and
to see the place before the session end
ed. The next year. In letter to his
brother, he says:
"Vnndalia Is a small. crude village.
II has q strong flavor OF whisky, pro-
family and tobacco. The night after
l got there | went to a banquet with
Abe Lincoln. Heard lot about the
dam nlgger-lOving Yankees who wore
trying to ruin the state and country
with abolition. There were some
stories like those we used to hear 10
the lumber camp, and no end Of pow.
erful talk. In which the names OF God
and the Savior were 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 1t, shatterlng
plates and cups and saucers aud
glasses. Nobody seemed to be able
TO stop them. ! hear that they had TO
pay several hundred dollars for the
damage done. You will be apt to think
that there is too much liberty here In
tie West. and perhaps that Is so, but
the fact Is these men are not half 90
bad AS they seem to be. Lincoln tells
me that they are honest. almost TO q
man. and sincerely devoted to the pub
lie good as they see II. asked ABB
Lincoln, who all his life has assOclatee
with rOugh-tongued, drinking men
how he managed TO hold his owp
course and keep his talk and habits "
clean.
why. the fact Is said he. 4 have
associated with the people who llveo
around me only part Of the time. but
have never stopped assoclating with
myself and with Washington and Clay
and Webster and Shakespeare ana
Burns and DeFoe and Scott and
Blackstone and Parsons. On the
whole. I've been In pretty good com
pany.'
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