The next teacher was Andrew Crawford.

Mrs.Gentry says he began teaching in the neighborhood in the winter of 1822-3.

Crawford 'kept school' in the same little school-house which had been the scene of Dorsey's labors, and the windows were still adorned with the greased leaves of old copybooks that had come down from Dorsey's time.

Abe was now in his fifteenth year, and began to exhibit symptoms of gallantry toward the other sex.

He was growing at a tremendous rate, and two years later attained his full height of six feet and four inches.