He had reached the height of six feet and four inches, a length of trunk and limb remarkable even among the tall race of pioneers to which he belonged.
Just before the river expedition, Lincoln had walked with a young girl down to the river to show her his flatboat.

She relates a circumstance of the evening which is full of significance.

"We were sitting on the banks of the Ohio, or rather on the boat he had made.

I said to Abe that the sun was going down.

He said to me, 'That's not so; it don't really go down; it seems so.