"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories

About this eBook

Compiler

Wordsworth, R. D.

Title

"Abe" Lincoln's Anecdotes and Stories A Collection of the Best Stories Told by Lincoln Which Made Him Famous as America's Best Story Teller

Credits

Produced by Richard Hulse, Diane Monico, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Anecdotes

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47811

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47811

Release Date

December 29, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1."ABE" LINCOLN'S ANECDOTES AND STORIES
2. 2."ABE" LINCOLN'S ANECDOTES AND STORIES — A FUN-LOVING AND HUMOR-LOVING MAN — MATRIMONIAL ADVICE — A SLOW HORSE — A VAIN GENERAL — HAD CONFIDENCE IN HIM—"BUT"— — HARDTACK BETTER THAN GENERALS — DOUGLAS HELD LINCOLN'S HAT — HIS PASSES TO RICHMOND NOT HONORED — LINCOLN AS A DANCER — LOVED SOLDIERS' HUMOR — WANTED TO "BORROW" THE ARMY — "FIXED UP" A BIT FOR THE "CITY FOLKS" — "FIND OUT FOR YOURSELVES" — COLD MOLASSES WAS SWIFTER — "DON'T KILL HIM WITH YOUR FIST" — "AND—HERE I AM!" — PRAISES HIS RIVAL FOR OFFICE — HAD TO WAIT FOR HIM — MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT, ANYWAY — SORRY FOR THE HORSES — NOISE LIKE A TURNIP — LET SIX SKUNKS GO — ONE THING "ABE" DIDN'T LOVE — THE MAN HE WAS LOOKING FOR — WANTED STANTON SPANKED — SIX FEET FOUR AT SEVENTEEN — JUST LIKE SEWARD — "ABE" GOT THE WORST OF IT — HE "SET 'EM UP" — GOD WITH A LITTLE "g" — WHAT AILED THE BOYS — "MAJOR-GENERAL, I RECKON" — IT TICKLED THE LITTLE WOMAN — HE'D SEE IT AGAIN — SURE CURE FOR BOILS — JUSTICE vs. NUMBERS — LINCOLN SAW STANTON ABOUT IT — SLEEP STANDING UP — "ABE'S" LITTLE JOKE — HOW "FIGHTING JOE" WAS APPOINTED — NO OTHERS LIKE THEM — THE DANDY AND THE BOYS — BOAT HAD TO STOP — RAN AWAY WHEN VICTORIOUS — HE "SKEWED" THE LINE — "HOW DO YOU GET OUT OF THIS PLACE?" — HELL A MILE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE — 'TWAS "MOVING DAY" — "ABE'S" HAIR NEEDED COMBING — RIGHT FOR ONCE, ANYHOW — "SMELT NO ROYALTY IN OUR CARRIAGE" — SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE — REMINDED HIM OF "A LITTLE STORY" — BIG ENOUGH HOG FOR HIM — HOW "JAKE" GOT AWAY — "ABE" RESENTED THE INSULT — STORIES BETTER THAN DOCTORS — "ALL SICKER'N YOUR MAN" — "DID YE ASK MORRISSEY YET?" — LINCOLN ASKED TO BE SHOT — HE COULDN'T WAIT FOR THE COLONEL — HE LOVED A GOOD STORY — THE DEAD MAN SPOKE — LINCOLN PRONOUNCED THIS STORY FUNNY — "PLOUGH ALL 'ROUND HIM" — "I'VE LOST MY APPLE" — LINCOLN'S APOLOGY TO GRANT — A USELESS DOG — HE'D RUIN ALL THE OTHER CONVICTS — IT WAS UP-HILL WORK — HIS "GLASS HACK" — COULD LICK ANY MAN IN THE CROWD — NO DEATHS IN HIS HOUSE — LINCOLN'S NAME FOR "WEEPING WATER" — EASIER TO EMPTY THE POTOMAC — A "FREE FOR ALL" — THE OTHER ONE WAS WORSE — COULD MAKE "RABBIT-TRACKS" — PETER CARTWRIGHT'S DESCRIPTION OF LINCOLN — WISHED THE ARMY CHARGED LIKE THAT — "UNCLE ABRAHAM" HAD EVERYTHING READY — DIDN'T TRUST THE COURT — "TAD" GOT HIS DOLLAR — ROUGH ON THE NEGRO — "LONG ABE'S" FEET "PROTRUDED OVER" — "I'D A BEEN MISSED BY MYSE'F" — LOST HIS CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER — THE CASE OF BETSY ANN DOUGHERTY — "FOOLING" THE PEOPLE — HER ONLY IMPERFECTION — HE "BROKE" TO WIN — "BAP." McNABB'S ROOSTER — LINCOLN'S FIRST SPEECH — TOO MANY PIGS FOR THE TEATS — MORE PEGS THAN HOLES — FEW, BUT BOISTEROUS — THE PRESIDENTIAL "CHIN-FLY" — "WEBSTER COULDN'T HAVE DONE MORE" — LONG AND SHORT OF IT — 'SQUIRE BAGLY'S PRECEDENT — TOM CORWIN'S LATEST STORY — THE CABINET WAS A-SETTIN' — "MASSA LINKUM LIKE DE LORD!" — A BULLET THROUGH HIS HAT — THE GENERAL WAS "HEADED IN" — "MIXING" AND "MINGLING" — WANTED TO BURN HIM DOWN TO THE STUMP — CHALLENGED ALL COMERS — WITHDREW THE COLT — SWEET, BUT MILD REVENGE — "CATCH 'EM AND CHEAT 'EM" — A JURYMAN'S SCORN — "TAD" INTRODUCES "OUR FRIENDS" — STOOD UP THE LONGEST — ADMIRED THE STRONG MAN — SAVED LINCOLN'S LIFE — WOULD BLOW THEM TO H——. — "I CAN STAND IT IF THEY CAN" — A MORTIFYING EXPERIENCE — GRANT HELD ON ALL THE TIME — EVERY LITTLE HELPED — KEPT UP THE ARGUMENT — THOUGHT OF LEARNING A TRADE — THE SAME OLD RUM — COULDN'T LET GO THE HOG — HIS KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE — TOOK NOTHING BUT MONEY — CREDITOR PAID DEBTOR'S DEBT — CONSCRIPTING DEAD MEN — MAJOR ANDERSON'S BAD MEMORY — SETTLED OUT OF COURT — NO VANDERBILT — LINCOLN MISTAKEN FOR ONCE — "DONE WITH THE BIBLE" — SATISFACTION TO THE SOUL — HIS TEETH CHATTERED — PROFANITY AS A SAFETY-VALVE — A STAGE-COACH STORY — SENTINEL OBEYED ORDERS — "WUZ GOIN' TER BE 'HITCHED'"

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