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A little boy watched his father work and learned the lesson that man lives best by the sweat of his own brow, not by the sweat of other men's brows. While they toiled, through the shadows of the surrounding forest a savage stole secretly toward them on his soft moccasins. He paused, aimed his gun and fired. The man fell over dead; then the Indian came rapidly, caught up the boy and ran off toward the woods with him. But his older brother, Mordecai, ran to the log hut and catching up the ever ready gun shot the Indian through the heart and sent him. | Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham by James H. Shaw 1 Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham by James H. Shaw The Project Gutenberg EBook of Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham Lincoln by James H. Shaw This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham Lincoln Author James H. Shaw Release Date January 20 2011 EBook 35009 Language English Character set encoding ASCII START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Produced by Heather Clark Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http www.pgdp.net This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham Lincoln. Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham by James H. Shaw 2 By James H. Shaw. Evergreen City Publishing Company Bloomington Illinois. TYPOGRAPHY AND PRESSWORK BY EARL MARQUAM BLOOMINGTON ILLINOIS. Illustration Boys and Girls Biography of Abraham Lincoln. CHAPTER I. 3 CHAPTER I. A great English writer 1 in a lecture on America and the Americans said that when an American gets to heaven he will not be satisfied unless he can move farther west. Footnote 1 Charles Dickens. He said this because it has been so much the custom of our people to move West. It is not so common now as it was a few years ago because the great public lands free to those who would settle on them or plant trees are mostly occupied. The Lincoln family a couple of hundred years ago first moved west from England to Massachusetts then they moved west again to Pennsylvania then west and south to Virginia then west again to Kentucky. Way back in the last century a man was digging in the rich soil of Kentucky. He turned up clods planted seed and God sent the rain-drops and sun-beams and the grain sprang up and became .
