These vigorous exercises gave him restful sleep; he recovered almost wholly from the spiritless anemia of his first awakening.

And whenever he was not in the air, and awake, Lincoln was assiduous in the cause of his amusement; all that was novel and curious in contemporary invention was brought to him, until at last his appetite for novelty was well-nigh glutted.

One might fill a dozen inconsecutive volumes with the strange things they exhibited.

Each afternoon he held his court for an hour or so.

He found his interest in his contemporaries becoming personal and intimate.