ile,liomely sou of the soil—inventing such athing? What next did the industrious, jirac-tical, ^^ashington make? This time ithad to do with his estate. It was a plow.He had seen a ]jlow which had \>vvnbrought over from England, and imme-diately his practical mind worked out animi)ro\ement. Then… … During spare hours in his law office,Abraham Lincoln whittled out a model forhis device to lift vessels over the shoals. all over again. At last the idea waswhipped into shape, and then A\ asliing-ton jjroudly brought out two of his hand-somest carriage horses anfl attached themto the plow. It…
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