Excerpt from The World’s Workers: Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Arnold of Rugby
The little lad is Abraham Lincoln, and it is with such strange substitutes for pencil and slate as these that he who in course of time will become President of the United States is teaching himself penmanship.
Let us glance at the humble home, and the sur roundings of Abraham at this time then we shall be better able to understand how it was that he was occupied in the way we have seen.
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