's long arms.

The child disappeared, and when the two players had begun to believe
they were to be permitted to end the game in peace, the table suddenly
"bucked" and the board and chessmen were sent flying all over the floor.

Judge Treat was much vexed, and expressed impatience, not hesitating to
tell Mr. Lincoln that the boy ought to be punished severely.

Mr. Lincoln replied, as he gently took down his hat to go home to
supper:

"Considering the position of your pieces, judge, at the time of the
upheaval, I think you have no reason to complain."

WHEN TAD GOT A SPANKING

Yet, indulgent as he was, there were some things Mr. Lincoln would not
allow even his youngest child to do. An observer who saw the
President-elect and his family in their train on the way to Washington
to take the helm of State, relates that little Tad amused himself by
raising the car window an inch or two and trying, by shutting it down
suddenly, to catch the fingers of the curious boys outside who were
holding themselves up by their hands on the window sill of the car to
catch sight of the new President and his family.

The President-elect, who had to go out to the platform to make a little
speech to a crowd at nearly every stop, noticed Tad's attempts to pinch
the boys' fingers. He spoke sharply to his son and commanded him to stop
that. Tad obeyed for a time, but his father, catching him at the same
trick again, leaned over, and taking the little fellow across his knee,
gave him a good, sound spanking, exclaiming as he did so:

"Why do you want to mash those boys' fingers?"

THE TRUE STORY OF BOB'S LOSING THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS

Mr. Lincoln was always lenient when the offense was against himself. The
Hon. Robert Todd Lincoln, the only living son of the great President,
tells how the satchel containing his father's inaugural address was lost
for a time. Some writers have related the story of this loss, stating
that it all happened at Harrisburg, and telling how the President-elect
discovered a bag like his own, and on opening it found only a pack of
greasy cards, a bottle of whisky and a soiled paper collar. Also that
Mr. Lincoln was "reminded" of a cheap, ill-fitting story--but none of
these things really took place.

Here is the true story, as related to the writer by Robert Lincoln
himself:

"My father had confided to me the care of the satchel containing his
inaugural address. It was lost for a little while during the stay