The Lincoln Story Book
  • LINCOLN CALENDAR.
  • CHILDISH RIME.
  • THE LITTLE HATCHET DID IT.
  • THE LITTLE HATCHET AGAIN TURNS UP.
  • LINCOLN'S WEDDING-SONG.
  • “RISK THE HOGS AND I WILL RISK MYSELF!”
  • THE REST WAS VILE.
  • “NO HEAPING COALS OF FIRE ON THAT HEAD.”
  • STUMPING THE STUMP-SPEAKER.
  • MAKING THE WOOL, NOT FEATHERS, FLY.
  • LOG-ROLLING TO SAVE LIVES.
  • LINCOLN'S FIRST DOLLAR.
  • CONVICTION THROUGH A THRASHING.
  • BOATING ON GROUND “A LEETLE DAMP.”
  • THE INITIATOR INSTALLED.
  • THE HORRORS FOR THE THIRD TIME!
  • THE WHISTLE THAT STOPPED THE BOAT.
  • IT IS THE DEED, NOT THE DOER.
  • TURN OUT OR BE TURNED OUT.
  • THE BEST THING TO TAKE.
  • DRINKING AND SWALLOWING ARE TWO THINGS.
  • WORSTED IN A HORSE-TRADE.
  • HOW MANY SHORT BREATHS?
  • LINCOLN'S HEIGHT.
  • MEASURES AND MEN.
  • THE PRIZE FOR HOMELINESS.
  • HOW LONG LEGS SHOULD BE.
  • LONG METER.
  • “HARDSHIPS STRENGTHEN MUSCLES.”
  • HE USED TO BE “GOOD ON THE CHOP.”
  • A MAN WHO CAN SCRATCH HIS SHINS WITHOUT STOOPING.
  • STRUCK BY THE DEAD HAND.
  • THIS CLINCHES IT.
  • LINCOLN'S FIRST LOVE-STORY.
  • A PUT-UP JOB—OR CHANCE?
  • LINCOLN'S MARRIAGE.
  • THE BURLESQUE DUEL.
  • “WANTING TO DANCE THE WORST WAY.”
  • “THE STATUTE FIXES ALL THAT!”
  • HE DID NOT KNOW HIS OWN HOUSE.
  • THE ONLY ONE WHO DARED “PULL WOOL OVER LINCOLN'S EYES.”
  • THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.
  • “ALL A MAN WANTS—TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!”
  • “I'LL HIT THE THING HARD!”
  • THE “LEX TALIONIS” CHRISTIANIZED.
  • THE SLAVE-DEALER.
  • THE NEGRO HOME, OR AGITATION!
  • LINCOLN'S VOW.
  • “DEN I TAKES TO DE WOODS!”
  • THE UNPARDONABLE CRIME.
  • BEYOND THE BOON.
  • VAIN AS THE POPE'S BULL AGAINST THE COMET.
  • A VOLUNTEER CAPTAINCY WORTH TWO DOLLARS.
  • GETTING THE COMPANY COLUMN THROUGH “ENDWISE.”
  • REGULAR AND IRREGULAR.
  • KNOWING WHEN TO GIVE IN.
  • A FRUITFUL SPEECH.
  • A CAPTAIN CHALLENGED BY HIS MEN.
  • GENERAL McCLELLAN'S OPINION OF LINCOLN AS A LAWYER.
  • KENTUCKIANS ARE CLANNY.
  • NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF!
  • “SKIN WRIGHT AND CLOSE!”
  • HOOKING HENS IS LOW!
  • “THE STATE AGAINST MR. WHISKY!”
  • AS CLEAR AS MOONSHINE.
  • “NICE CLOTHES MAY MAKE A HANDSOME MAN—EVEN OF YOU!”
  • THE ABUTMENT WAS DUBERSOME.
  • “GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRESIDENT.”
  • LINCOLN'S FIRST POLITICAL SPEECH.
  • A LIGHTNING-ROD TO PROTECT A GUILTY CONSCIENCE!
  • FIRING ON A FLEA FOR A SQUIRREL.
  • THE CREAM OF THE JOKE.
  • PARALLEL COURSES.
  • JUMPING JIM CROW!
  • FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS.
  • THE PARTY GAD.
  • HARD TO BEAT!
  • “I RECKON I TOOK MORE THAN MY SHARE.”
  • LINCOLN WAS LOADED FOR BEAR.
  • “A BOUNTEOUS PRESIDENT—IF ANYTHING IS LEFT!”
  • THE ART OF BEING PAID TO EAT.
  • A VICE NOT TO SAY “NO!”
  • THE BEST CAR!
  • SELF-MADE.
  • HIS HIGH MIGHTINESS.
  • LINCOLN'S OPINION AT THIRTY.
  • THE BLANK BIOGRAPHY.
  • “THE HOMELIEST MAN UNDER GOVERNMENT.”
  • BETTER LOOKING THAN EXPECTED.
  • LINCOLN AND SUPERSTITION.
  • LINCOLN'S DREAM.
  • LINCOLN'S VISION.
  • “IT IS A POOR SERMON THAT DOES NOT HIT SOMEWHERE.”
  • THE RELIGION OF FEELING.
  • THE TWO PRAYERS.
  • “WE SHALL SEE OUR FRIENDS IN HEAVEN!”
  • MORE PRAYING AND LESS SWEARING!
  • GLOVES OR NO GLOVES.
  • THE USE OF BOOKS.
  • LINCOLN'S BOOK CRITICISM.
  • THE HAND-TO-HAND ENCOUNTER.
  • BETTER SOMETIMES RIGHT THAN ALL TIMES WRONG.
  • MAKING THE DAGGER STAB THE HOLDER.
  • THE TAIL OF THE KITE.
  • NO DAY WITHOUT A LINE.
  • TRUTH AND THE PEOPLE.
  • “CALL ME 'LINCOLN.'“
  • THE ELOQUENT HAND.
  • WOMAN.
  • TO THINK AND TO DO WELL.
  • “SET THE TRAP AGAIN!”
  • “NO ROYALTY IN OUR CARRIAGE.”
  • THE TRAP TO CATCH A DOUGLAS.
  • PRACTISE BEFORE AND BEHIND “THE BAR.”
  • CONNUBIAL AMITY.
  • THE MODEL WHISKY-BARREL.
  • FIGHTING OUT OF ONE COAT INTO THE OTHER.
  • THE PROMISING FACE!
  • “A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND.”
  • THE CONCERT ON “DRED SCOTT.”
  • PLAYING CUTTLEFISH.
  • A VOICE FROM THE DEAD.
  • “IF I MUST GO DOWN, LET IT BE LINKED TO TRUTH.”
  • COME ONE, COME ALL!
  • ASSISTING THE INEVITABLE.
  • SELF-SACRIFICE.
  • A FIGHT PROVES NOTHING.
  • “WIN THE FIGHT, OR DIE A-TRYING.”
  • PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY.
  • “DOWN TO THE RAISINS!”
  • GIANT AND GIANT-KILLER.
  • LINCOLN'S “SENTIMENTS” ON A MOOTED POINT.
  • CHESTNUTS UNDER A SYCAMORE.
  • STILL OF LITTLE NOTE.
  • THE TREE-TOAD AND “TIMOTHEUS.”
  • “IF IT WILL DO THE PRESIDENT GOOD—“
  • GROUNDS FOR A FINANCIAL ESTIMATE.
  • “I WANTED TO SEE THEM SPREAD!”
  • THE LINCOLN NON SEQUITUR.
  • WHY SO MANY COMMON PEOPLE.
  • ENVY OF A HUMORIST.
  • THE STOPPER ON JOURNALISTIC “GAS.”
  • SALT BEFORE PEPPER.
  • “MATCHING” STORIES.
  • THE ONLY DISCREDIT.
  • NO RE-LIE-ANCE OF THEM!
  • NO VICES—FEW VIRTUES.
  • THE APPLES OF HIS EYE.
  • THE WHETSTONE STORY.
  • “THE MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYED.”
  • MEN HAVE FAULTS LIKE HORSES.
  • LINCOLN'S PUNS ON PROPER NAMES.
  • NOT SO EASY TO GET INTO PRISON.
  • LINCOLN THE GREAT AND LINCOLN THE LITTLE.
  • “GO, THOU, AND DO LIKEWISE.”
  • “IS THE WORLD GOING TO FOLLOW THAT COMET OFF?”
  • A GOOD LISTENER.
  • CARRIED THE POST-MATTER IN HIS HAT.
  • PRESIDENT LINCOLN DUBBED THEM THE “WIDE-AWAKES.”
  • TRUST TO THE OLD BLUE SOCK.
  • IF ALL FAILED, HE COULD GO BACK TO THE OLD TRADE!
  • AS A LIGHT PORTER.
  • WHISKERED, TO PLEASE THE LADIES AND GET VOTES.
  • AFTER VOTES.
  • THE HIGHWAYMAN'S NON SEQUITUR.
  • “HOW TO GET MEN TO VOTE!”
  • “LUCE A JUG—THE HANDLE ALL ONE SIDE.”
  • “SUCH A SUCKER AS ME, PRESIDENT!”
  • ONE HAPPY DAY.
  • OLD ABE WILL LOOK BETTER WHEN HIS HAIR IS COMBED.
  • A CURIOUS COMBINATION.
  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
  • THE SNAKE SIMILE.
  • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
  • PAYING FOR WHISKY HE DID NOT DRINK.
  • “THE HIGHEST MERIT TO THE SOLDIER.”
  • “HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE?”
  • THE STOKERS AS BRAVE AS ANY.
  • TRY AND GO AS FAR AS YOU CAN!
  • ARGUMENT OF “THE STUB-TAILED COW.”
  • PEGGED OR SEWED?
  • SOLDIERING APART FROM POLITICS.
  • A TIME THAT TRIED THE SOUL.
  • “CABINET” TALK.
  • ON THE BLISTER-BENCH.
  • “ABE, A THUNDERING OLD GLORY!”
  • PERFECT RETALIATION.
  • LET DOWN THE BARS A LEETLE.
  • “THE ADMINISTRATION CAN STAND IT IF THE TIMES CAN.”
  • BOTTLING THAT WASP.
  • THAT KING LOST HIS HEAD.
  • SWEARING LIKE A CHURCHWARDEN.
  • “MY SPEECHES HAVE ORIGINALITY AS THEIR MERIT.”
  • RIGHTING WRONG HURTS, BUT DOES GOOD.
  • STANTON'S SERVICE WAS WORTH HIS SAUCE.
  • A SECRET OF THE INTERIOR.
  • ALL STAFF AND NO ARMY.
  • NO MAN IS INDISPENSABLE.
  • SLEEPING ON POST CANCELS A COMMISSION.
  • MY QUESTION!
  • “IF GOOD, HE'S GOT IT! IF T'AINT GOOD, HE AIN'T GOT IT!”
  • LINCOLN GUESSED THE FIRST TIME.
  • A PHANTOM CHASE.
  • THE WORD FLIES, BUT THE WRIT REMAINS.
  • THE WAR-LORD.
  • FILE IT AWAY!
  • “WHAT WE HAVE, WE WILL GIVE YOU.”
  • MORE “SHINPLASTERS” TO HEAL THE SORE.
  • “THERE IS MUCH IN AN 'IF' AND A 'BUT.'“
  • DON'T WASTE THE PLUG, BUT USE IT!
  • THE RUNNING FEVER.
  • “ONE AND A HALF TIMES BIGGER THAN OTHER MEN!”
  • SO SLOW, A HEARSE RAN OVER HIM!
  • BLOOD-SHEDDING REMITS SINS.
  • HIS “LEG CASES.”
  • HOW THE DELINQUENT SOLDIER PAID HIS DEBT.
  • “THE SWEARING HAD TO BE DONE THEN, OR NOT AT ALL!”
  • DISPLACE THE THISTLES BY FLOWERS.
  • “YOU HAVE ONE, AND I HAVE ONE—THAT IS RIGHT!”
  • “SHOOTING A MAN DOES HIM NO GOOD!”
  • BENEVOLENCE IS BEAUTIFUL.
  • “IT WAS THE BABY THAT DID IT.”
  • “IT RESTS ME TO SAVE A LIFE!”
  • “A FAMILY MAN WANTS TO SEE HIS FAMILY.”
  • A RULE WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
  • EVEN REBELS MIGHT BE SAVED.
  • WHIPPING AROUND THE STUMP.
  • “LIFE TOO PRECIOUS TO BE LOST.”
  • MERCY HAS PRECEDENCE OVER THE RIGID.
  • TAKEN FROM REBELLION AND GIVEN TO LOYALTY.
  • SUSPENSION IS NOT EXECUTION.
  • “THE DISCONTENTED ... ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED—“
  • “NOT MUCH OF A HEAD, BUT HIS ONLY ONE!”
  • “GI'E US A GOOD CONCEIT!”
  • THEY WENT AWAY SICKER STILL.
  • OF TWENTY APPLICANTS, NINETEEN ARE MADE ENEMIES.
  • RID OF AN OFFICE-SEEKER.
  • NOT GOOD OFFICES, BUT A GOOD STORY.
  • ENCOURAGE LONGING FOR WORK.
  • “BUT AARON GOT HIS COMMISSION!”
  • SOMETHING LINCOLNIAN ALL COULD TAKE.
  • “NOT MANY SUCH BOYS OUTSIDE OF SUNDAY-SCHOOLS!”
  • THE GOOD BOY GETS ON.
  • HOW McCULLOCH WAS CONSTRAINED TO SERVE.
  • ALL MOUTH AND NO HANDS' CLASS.
  • HOT AND COLD THE SAME BREATH.
  • WANTED THE JAIL EARNINGS.
  • A TITLE NO HINDRANCE.
  • A TALKER WITH NOTHING TO SAY.
  • STICK TO YOUR BUSINESS.
  • MARRYING A MAN WITHOUT HIS CONSENT.
  • “A LUXURY TO SEE ONE WHO WANTS NOTHING.”
  • “ACCUSE NOT A SERVANT——“
  • A WOLF IN A TRAP MUST SACRIFICE HIS “TAIL” TO BE FREE.
  • SOMEWHAT OF A NEWSMAN.
  • “A LITTLE MORE LIGHT AND A LITTLE LESS NOISE.”
  • “MY PART OF THE SHIP IS ANCHORED.”
  • ANGELS SWEARING MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
  • WASHINGTON'S DIFFICULT TASK.
  • STEEL AND STEAL.
  • “THAT'S WHAT'S THE MATTER.”
  • “THE SHIP OF STATE” SIMILE.
  • A PILL FOR THE PUBLIC PRINTER.
  • “LET THE GRASS GROW WHERE IT MAY!”
  • THE PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE PARTY.
  • THINGS WERE TOPSY-TURVY ALOFT, TOO.
  • HITCHING TO THE MOON.
  • A RED FLAG TO HIM.
  • “FLY AWAY, JACK!”
  • HIS PEN WANTED TO KEEP THEIR HOGS SAFE.
  • “HURRAH FOR YOU!”
  • “PUT YOUR FEET RIGHT AND STAND FIRM!”
  • GET THEIR GRAVES READY!
  • MR. LINCOLN'S OPINION OF GENERAL McCLELLAN.
  • A “STATIONARY” ENGINE.
  • SHOVELING FLEAS.
  • THE GEORGIA COLONEL'S COSTUME.
  • COARSE FEED FIRST!
  • “AIN'T I GLAD TO GIT OUT O' DE WILDERNESS!”
  • WITH TWO GUNS, HOLD OFF AN ARMY.
  • BREAKING UP THE LITTLE GAME.
  • “THE BOTTOM WILL FALL OUT.”
  • “MASTER OF THEM BOTH.”
  • “THE SKEERED VIRGINIAN.”
  • “HE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY—“
  • NO SUNDAY FIGHTING.
  • LET A GOOD MAN ALONE!
  • THE “BLONDIN” SIMILE.
  • THE PIONEER'S LAND-TITLE.
  • “CHEERS NOT MILITARY—BUT I LIKE THEM!”
  • NUMBERING THE HAIRS OF HIS—TAIL!
  • AN UNCONVENTIONAL ORDER.
  • “IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I AM COMMANDER!”
  • COMPLIMENTS IS ALL THEY DO PAY!
  • BAIL THE POTOMAC WITH A SPOON.
  • “WE SHALL BEAT THEM, MY SON!”
  • “LITTLE FOR SO BIG A BUSINESS.”
  • NOT “SHOULDER-STRAPS,” BUT HARDTACK.
  • DON'T SWAP HORSES CROSSING A STREAM.
  • “NO PLACING THORNS IN THE SIDE OF MY WORST ENEMY!”
  • THE LINCOLN PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
  • THE COMMANDER SHOULD OBEY ORDERS.
  • THE IDLERS EQUALED THE EFFECTIVES.
  • REST!
  • “I CAN BEAR CENSURE, BUT NOT INSULT!”
  • A BATTLE OF ROSES.
  • “HELP ME LET GO!”
  • SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE.
  • IN THE INCA'S POSITION.
  • “BLIND” FORTUNE.
  • LITTLE DAVID AND THE STONE FOR GOLIATH.
  • LINCOLN'S CHEESE-BOX ON A RAFT.
  • NO “DUTCH COURAGE.”
  • “IF I HAD AS MUCH MONEY AND WAS AS BADLY SKEERED——“
  • “IT PLEASES HER, AND IT DON'T HURT ME.”
  • “LET HIM SQUEAL IF HE WORKS.”
  • BRIGADIERS CHEAP—CHARGERS COSTLY.
  • TO CURE SINGING IN THE HEAD.
  • BOWING TO THE BOY OF BATTLES.
  • WHEN WASHINGTON WAS ALL ONE TAVERN.
  • “BREAK THE CRITTER WHERE SLIM!”
  • HOW GET HIM OUT?
  • “A PLEASURE TO PRESIDE, AT LAST!”
  • ON THE LORD'S SIDE.
  • “TO CANAAN!”
  • “GOING TO CANAAN!”
  • THE FOX APPOINTED PAYMASTER.
  • RISKING THE DICTATORSHIP.
  • A STAGE IN THE CEASELESS MARCH ONWARD TO VICTORY.
  • WORKING FOR A LIVING MAKES ONE PRACTICAL.
  • “HOLD ON AND CHAW!”
  • THE GREAT NATIONAL JOB.
  • FOR FLAYING A MAN ALIVE.
  • “ONE ON 'EM NOT DEAD YET!”
  • THE SOUTH LIKE AN ASH-CAKE.
  • “I COUNT FOR SOMETHING!”
  • PASSES NO GOOD FOR RICHMOND.
  • THE MAYOR IS THE BETTER HORSE.
  • THE REAL THING SUPERIOR TO THE SHAM BATTLE.
  • THE TOOL TURNED ON THE HANDLE.
  • “SOONER THE FOWL BY HATCHING THE EGG THAN SMASHING IT.”
  • TOO BUSY TO GO INTO ANOTHER BUSINESS.
  • THE SCALE OF REBELS.
  • ONE WAR AT A TIME.
  • “AGIN' THE GOVERNMENT.”
  • PLOWING AROUND A LOG.
  • NOT THE RIGHT “CLAY” TO CEMENT A UNION.
  • “THE MAN DOWN SOUTH.”
  • THE DISMEMBERED “YALLER” DOG.
  • THE METEOROLOGICAL OMEN.
  • DID SHE TAKE THE WINK TO HERSELF?
  • GOING DOWN WITH COLORS FLYING.
  • THERE MUST BE THE BELL-MULE.
  • “ROOT, HOG, OR DIE!”
  • THE GRANT BRAND OF WHISKY.
  • “A GENERAL, AT LAST!”
  • A FIZZLE ANYHOW!
  • “FORGET OVER A GRAVE!”
  • IF HE FELT THAT WAY—START!
  • FIGURES WILL PROVE ANYTHING.
  • “I DON'T WANT TO—BUT THAT'S IT IF I MUST DIE!”
  • BEST LET AN ELEPHANT GO!
  • HISTORY REPEATS.
  • “NOT THE PRESIDENT, BUT THE OLD FRIEND.”
  • “CLOSE YOUR EYES!”
  • DON'T JUDGE BY APPEARANCES.
  • “NOTHING CAN TOUCH HIM FURTHER.”
  • “WENT AND RETURNED!”
  • THE CLEAR FORESIGHT.
  • DO IT “UNBEKNOWNST.”
  • ONE CANNOT DIE TWICE.
  • NO MORE INVIDIOUS NAME-CALLING.
  • “THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE TREASURY OF THE WORLD.”
  • “HANG ON—NOT HANG!”
  • LINCOLN'S LAST WISH.
  • ASSASSINATION.
  • A PRESIDENT, NOT AN EMPEROR.
  • THE PLOT TO WAYLAY THE PRESIDENT (1860).
  • “I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY DANGER!”
  • WORRY TILL YOU GET RID OF THINGS.
  • THE FEARLESSNESS OF THE GOD-FEARING.
  • THE POISONING PLOT.
  • NOTHING LIKE GETTING USED TO THINGS!
  • MOST AFRAID OF A FRIENDLY SHOT.
  • THE ONE WORD HE HAD LEARNED.
  • NOT TO DISAPPOINT THE PEOPLE.
  • NOTHING LIKE PRAYER—BUT PRAISE.
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