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In The Boyhood Of Lincoln

In The Boyhood Of Lincoln

by Hezekiah Butterworth

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Author
Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Title
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk
Credits
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Josephine Paolucci 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
PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Fiction
Category
Text
eBook-No.
25672
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25672
Release Date
June 1, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN — A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk — BY
  2. 2.HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH — AUTHOR OF THE LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON THE COLUMBIA — ILLUSTRATED
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS
  5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN.
  7. 7.CHAPTER I. — INTRODUCED.
  8. 8.CHAPTER II. — THOMAS LINCOLN'S FAMILY STORIES. — THOMAS LINCOLN'S STORY. — THE HERMIT.
  9. 9.CHAPTER III. — THE OLD BLACKSMITH'S SHOP AND THE MERRY STORY-TELLERS. — JOHNNIE KONGAPOD'S INCREDIBLE STORY. — " HOW ABRAHAM WENT TO MILL.
  10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — A BOY WITH A HEART.
  11. 11.CHAPTER V. — JASPER COBBLES FOR AUNT OLIVE.—HER QUEER STORIES.
  12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — JASPER GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS VISIT TO BLACK HAWK.—AUNT INDIANA'S WIG. — AN ASTONISHED INDIAN.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — THE EXAMINATION AT CRAWFORD'S SCHOOL. — Felling trees in a wood. — Sounds of a bow-string. — The pheasant. — Scylla and Charybdis. — Boisterous and gentle sounds. — Laborious and impetuous motion. — Regular and slow movement. — Motion slow and difficult. — A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. — Extent and violence of the waves. — Pensive numbers. — Battle. — Sound imitating reluctance.
  14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — THE PARABLE PREACHES IN THE WILDERNESS.
  15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — AUNT INDIANA'S PROPHECIES.
  16. 16.CHAPTER X. — THE INDIAN RUNNER.
  17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — THE CABIN NEAR CHICAGO.
  18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — THE WHITE INDIAN OF CHICAGO.
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — LAFAYETTE AT KASKASKIA—THE STATELY MINUET. — Minuet from Don Giovanni. — By Mozart. Arr. by Carl Erich. — Published by the permission of Arthur P. Schmidt.
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — WAUBENO AND YOUNG LINCOLN.
  21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — THE DEBATING SCHOOL.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — THE SCHOOL THAT MADE LINCOLN PRESIDENT.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — THOMAS LINCOLN MOVES.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — MAIN-POGUE.
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — THE FOREST COLLEGE.
  26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — MAKING LINCOLN A "SON OF MALTA."
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — PRAIRIE ISLAND.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — THE INDIAN PLOT.
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — FOR LINCOLN'S SAKE.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — "OUR LINCOLN IS THE MAN." — We are Marching on to Richmond. — Words and Music by E. W. Locke.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — AT THE LAST. — THE END.
  32. 32.D. APPLETON AND COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS. — BOOKS BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD. — UNIFORM EDITION. EACH, 12MO, CLOTH, $1.50. — GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS. — Books by Hezekiah Butterworth.

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