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The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln

CHAPTER I
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They were called _his_ rails, but you never can tell.

I split some of 'em.

He was a master hand at maulin' rails.

I heard him say in a speech once, 'If I didn't make these I made many just as good.' Then the crowd yelled." One of his playmates has furnished much that is of interest in regard to the reputation which Lincoln left behind him in the neighborhood where he passed his boyhood and much of his youth.

This witness says: "Whenever the court was in session he was a frequent attendant.


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