The eyes seem out of place in the weary, faded face, but they glow and flash like two diamond sparks set in ridges of dull gold.

The face is a serious one, but the play of light in the eyes, unquenchable by time, betrays a nature of sunshine and elate with life.

A glance at the profile shows a face strikingly Lincoln-like,--prominent cheek bones, temple, nose, and chin; but best of all is that twinkling drollery in the eye that flashed in the White House during the dark days of the Civil War." Uncle Dennis's recollections go back to the birth of Abraham Lincoln.

To use his own words: "I rikkilect I run all the way, over two miles, to see Nancy Hanks's boy baby.

Her name was Nancy Hanks before she married Thomas Lincoln.