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had thought to close up the cycle of my stories of life in the Mississippi Valley with "Roxy" which was published in 1878. But when I undertook by request of the editor to write a short story for "The Century Magazine," and to found it on a legendary account of one of President Lincoln's trials, the theme grew on my hands until the present novel was the result. It was written mostly at Nervi, near Genoa, where I could not by any possibility have verified the story I had received about 1867 from one of Lincoln's old neighbors. To have investigated the accuracy of my. | The Graysons by Edward Eggleston 1 The Graysons by Edward Eggleston The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Graysons by Edward Eggleston 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.org Title The Graysons A Story of Illinois Author Edward Eggleston Illustrator Allegra Eggleston Release Date November 9 2010 EBook 34266 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GRAYSONS Produced by David Edwards 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 American Libraries. THE GRAYSONS A STORY OF ILLINOIS The Graysons by Edward Eggleston BY EDWARD EGGLESTON 2 AUTHOR OF THE HOOSIER SCHOOLMASTER ROXY THE CIRCUIT RIDER ETC. ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALLEGRA EGGLESTON THE CENTURY CO. NEW-YORK. COPYRIGHT 1887 BY EDWARD EGGLESTON. THE DEVINNE PRESS. Illustration TURNING THE BIBLE. PREFACE. I had thought to close up the cycle of my stories of life in the Mississippi Valley with Roxy which was published in 1878. But when I undertook by request of the editor to write a short story for The Century Magazine and to found it on a legendary account of one of President Lincoln s trials the theme grew on my hands until the present novel was the result. It was written mostly at Nervi near Genoa where I could not by any possibility have verified the story I had received about 1867from one of Lincoln s old neighbors. To have investigated the accuracy of my version of the anecdote would have been indeed to fly in the face and eyes of providence for popular tradition is itself an artist rough-hewing a story to the novelist s hands. During the appearance of this novel in serial form I have received many letters from persons acquainted in one way
