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IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN

A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster
and the Times of Black Hawk

BY

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH

AUTHOR OF THE LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON THE COLUMBIA

Let us have faith that right makes might, and
in that faith as to the end dare to do our duty.
                     PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

_ILLUSTRATED_

[Illustration]

NINTH EDITION

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1898


COPYRIGHT, 1892,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.




PREFACE.


Abraham Lincoln has become the typical character of American
institutions, and it is the purpose of this book, which is a true
picture in a framework of fiction, to show how that character, which so
commanded the hearts and the confidence of men, was formed. He who in
youth unselfishl