Gentlemen, you may think it a little thing, and in these days it seems to me a trifle; but it was a great event in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, a poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day,--that by honest work I had earned a dollar.

The world seemed wider and fairer to me.

I was a more hopeful and confident being from that time." Notwithstanding the limitations of every kind which hemmed in the life of young Lincoln, he had an instinctive feeling, born perhaps of his eager ambition, that he should one day attain an exalted position.

The first betrayal of this premonition is thus related by Mr.Arnold: "Lincoln attended court at Booneville, to witness a murder trial, at which one of the Breckenridges from Kentucky made a very eloquent speech for the defense.