True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 132
d who got him intotrouble. But, throughit all, Lincoln neverdid a mean or dis-honest thing. He paid all his debts, though it took him year?to do this, and he could be so completely trusted to do theright thing for everyone that all the people round about learnedto call him Honest Abe Lincoln. Thats… … LINCOLN KEEPING STORE. 134 ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois, in what is called the State Legislature. He wassent to the Legislature again and again, and one of the firstthings he did was to draw up a paper, saying what a wickedthing slavery was. At that time, you know, almost everybody in the…
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