to
perpetuate. The examples of Indians who have valued honor more than life
are many, and it is a pleasing duty to picture such scenes of native
worth, as true to the spirit of the past.

We have in this volume, as in the former book, freely mingled history,
tradition, and fiction, but we believe that we have in no case been
untrue to the fact and spirit of the times we picture, and we have
employed fiction chiefly as a framework to bring what is real more
vividly into view. We have employed the interpretive imagination merely
for narrative purposes. Nearly all that has distinctive worth in the
volume is substantially true to history, tradition, and the general
spirit of old times in the Illinois, the Sangamon, and the Chicago; to
the character of the "jolly old pedagogue long ago"; and to that
marvelous man who accepted in youth the lesson of lessons, that "right
makes might."

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--INTRODUCED 1

II.--THOMAS LINCOLN'S FAMILY STORIES 17

III.--THE OLD BLACKSMITH'S SHOP AND THE MERRY STORY-TELLERS 33

IV.--A BOY WITH A HEART 55

V.--JASPER COBBLES FOR AUNT OLIVE.--HER QUEER STORIES 62

VI.--JASPER GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS VISIT TO BLACK HAWK.--AUNT
INDIANA'S WIG 75

VII.--THE EXAMINATION AT CRAWFORD'S SCHOOL 87

VIII.--THE PARABLE PREACHES IN THE WILDERNESS 100

IX.--AUNT INDIANA'S PROPHECIES 108

X.--THE INDIAN RUNNER 115

XI.--THE CABIN NEAR CHICAGO 122

XII.--THE WHITE INDIAN OF CHICAGO 133

XIII.--LAFAYETTE AT KASKASKIA.--THE STATELY MINUET 140

XIV.--WAUBENO AND YOUNG LINCOLN 156

XV.--THE DEBATING SCHOOL 166

XVI.--THE SCHOOL THAT MADE LINCOLN PRESIDENT 177

XVII.--THOMAS LINCOLN MOVES 184

XVIII.--MAIN-POGUE 196

XIX.--THE FOREST COLLEGE 202

XX.--MAKING LINCOLN A "SON