True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 126
wise woman. She washed him and gave him new clothes ; she taught himhow to make the most and do the best with the few things hehad and the chances that came to him ; she made him wish ABRAHAM LINCOLN 127 for better things; she helped him fix himself up, and encour-aged him to read and study. This… … THE BOY LINCOLN STUDYING. Pie studied all the hard things he could find books on, fromarithmetic and grammar to surveying and law. He wrote ona shingle, when he could not get paper, and by the light of alog fire, when he could not get candles. He read and studiedin the fields, when he was not…
