which he never forgot, though he was not yet nine y

honest, truthful, and kind to eve

He always wanted to be what his mother said was her desire for him to be. He often said, "

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of that great man's acquaintance with grief, but the impression she had made on him never forsook hi

is splendid life, he answered, "I once had a friend." So it was with Linco

gious faith that he could never be satisfied until he induced a

is to be seen the love that leavened his life to

dents, has not proven altogether reliable. One of these personal incidents told by Lincoln of his childhood may b

the war. He had been fishing and had caught a little fish. On the way home he met a soldier returning from the war.

ing mind. Only the will of disordered interests is able to get bad things into the desires of a child. The L

incoln that he sought out only noble women, and that noble w

ncluding the two motherless children. His own homeless childhood made him tender toward his little unmothered f

le Lincoln home. She loved the little boy she found on her arrival in the

y questions of wayfarers passing that way. One day a very trivial event happened, but in the wondro

wife and two little daughters staid in Lincoln's

ever heard. In fact, it was also the first educated people he had ever seen. One of the little girls seems to have impressed him deeply, to have awakened