Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 417
st alone. He wanted somebodyto share the pleasure with him. Often whencare kept him awake late at night he wouldwander through the halls of the ExecutiveMansion, and coming to the room where hissecretaries were still at work, would stop toread to them some poem, or a passage fromShakspere, or a bit… … THE LAD TOOK HER PICTURE FROM HIS POCKET AND SHOWED IT TO MR. LINCOLN. (See Page 923.)920 THE BOYS LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 92 I and uncomplaining thought and labor. Theburdens he could not shake off he bore withsilent courage, lightening them whenever pos-sible with the laughter that he once…
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