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Title: Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance

Author: Frances Cavanah

Illustrator: Paula Hutchison

Release Date: December 15, 2005 [EBook #17315]

Language: English

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~WEEKLY READER~

Children's Book Club

Education Center . Columbus 16, Ohio

PRESENTS

~Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance~

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_by_ ~FRANCES CAVANAH~

_illustrated by_ Paula Hutchison

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

CHICAGO . NEW YORK . SAN FRANCISCO

_This book is dedicated to my grandnephew_

~PHILIP JAN NADELMAN~

~WEEKLY READER Children's Book Club Edition, 1959~

COPYRIGHT (c) 1959 BY RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1959 UNDER INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT UNION

BY RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

BY AMERICAN BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS, INC., N.Y.

A LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 59-5789

In writing this story of Abraham Lincoln, the author depended primarily
on Lincoln's own statements and on the statements of his family and
friends who had firsthand knowledge of his everyday life. In instances
when dialogue had to be imagined, the conversation might logically have
taken place in the light of known circumstances. Such descriptive
details as were necessarily added were based on authentic accounts of
pioneer times.

F.C.

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[Illustration: Map of States where Lincoln was born and lived]

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There was a new boy baby at the Lincoln cabin! By cracky! thought Dennis
Hanks as he hurried up the path, he was going to like having a boy
cousin. They could go swimming together. Maybe they could play Indian.
Dennis pushed open the cabin door.

"Where is he?" he shouted. "Where is he?"

"Sh!" A neighbor, who had come in to help, put her finger to her lips.
"The baby is asleep."

Nancy Lincoln was lying on the pole bed in a corner of the