Lincoln's yarns
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- LINCOLN’S YARNS AND STORIES
- With Introduction and Anecdotes
- By Alexander K. McClure
- Profusely Illustrated
- THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY
- CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA
- PREFACE.
- A.K. McClure
- REVERE WASHINGTON AND LOVE LINCOLN, REV. DR. THEODORE L. CUYLER.
- LINCOLN CHRONOLOGY.
- LINCOLN ASKED TO BE SHOT.
- TIME LOST DIDN’T COUNT.
- NO VICES, NO VIRTUES.
- LINCOLN’S DUES.
- HIS KNOWLEDGE OF HUMAN NATURE.
- A MISCHIEVOUS OX.
- THE PRESIDENTIAL “CHIN-FLY.”
- HE’D NEED HIS GUN.
- KEPT UP THE ARGUMENT.
- EQUINE INGRATITUDE.
- WOULD “TAKE TO THE WOODS.”
- LINCOLN CARRIED HER TRUNK.
- BOAT HAD TO STOP.
- MCCLELLAN’S “SPECIAL TALENT.”
- HOW “JAKE” GOT AWAY.
- MORE LIGHT AND LESS NOISE.
- ONE BULLET AND A HATFUL.
- LINCOLN’S STORY TO PEACE COMMISSIONERS.
- IT DEPENDED UPON HIS CONDITION.
- SAVING HIS WIND.
- RIGHT FOR, ONCE, ANYHOW.
- A LOW-DOWN TRICK.
- END FOR END.
- LET SIX SKUNKS GO.
- HOW HE GOT BLACKSTONE.
- A JOB FOR THE NEW CABINETMAKER.
- LINCOLN MISTAKEN FOR ONCE.
- FORGOT EVERYTHING HE KNEW.
- HE LOVED A GOOD STORY.
- HEELS RAN AWAY WITH THEM.
- WANTED TO BURN HIM DOWN TO THE STUMP.
- HAD A “KICK” COMING.
- THE CASE OF BETSY ANN DOUGHERTY.
- HAD TO WEAR A WOODEN SWORD.
- GETTING RID OF AN ELEPHANT.
- GROTESQUE, YET FRIGHTFUL.
- CHARACTERISTIC OF LINCOLN.
- LOST HIS CERTIFICATE OF CHARACTER.
- NOTE PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT.
- DOG WAS A “LEETLE BIT AHEAD.”
- NOISE LIKE A TURNIP.
- WARDING OFF GOD’S VENGEANCE.
- JEFF DAVIS AND CHARLES THE FIRST.
- LOVED SOLDIERS’ HUMOR.
- BAD TIME FOR A BARBECUE.
- HE’D SEE IT AGAIN.
- CALL ANOTHER WITNESS.
- A CONTEST WITH LITTLE “TAD.”
- REMINDED HIM OF “A LITTLE STORY.”
- LINCOLN LUGS THE OLD MAN.
- MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF IT, ANYWAY.
- VICIOUS OXEN HAVE SHORT HORNS.
- LINCOLN’S NAME FOR “WEEPING WATER.”
- PETER CARTWRIGHT’S DESCRIPTION OF LINCOLN.
- NO DEATHS IN HIS HOUSE.
- PAINTED HIS PRINCIPLES.
- DIGNIFYING THE STATUTE.
- LINCOLN CAMPAIGN MOTTOES.
- GIVING AWAY THE CASE.
- POSING WITH A BROOMSTICK.
- GRANT “TUMBLED” RIGHT AWAY.
- COULD BE ARBITRARY.
- A GENERAL BUSTIFICATION.
- MAKING QUARTERMASTERS.
- NO POSTMASTERS IN HIS POCKET.
- HE “SKEWED” THE LINE.
- NOT LIKE THE POPE’S BULL.
- COULD HE TELL?
- DARNED UNCOMFORTABLE SITTING.
- A REALLY GREAT GENERAL.
- LINCOLN ADOPTED THE SUGGESTION.
- SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.
- TOO MANY PIGS FOR THE TEATS.
- GREELEY CARRIES LINCOLN TO THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.
- THE LAST TIME HE SAW DOUGLAS.
- HURT HIS LEGS LESS.
- A LITTLE SHY OR GRAMMAR.
- HIS FIRST SATIRICAL WRITING.
- LIKELY TO DO IT.
- SAFE AS LONG AS THEY WERE GOOD.
- HELL A MILE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
- HIS “GLASS HACK”
- LEAVE HIM KICKING.
- WHAT SUMMER THOUGHT.
- A USELESS DOG.
- ORIGIN OF THE “INFLUENCE” STORY.
- FELT SORRY FOR BOTH.
- WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
- EASIER TO EMPTY THE POTOMAC.
- HE WANTED A STEADY HAND.
- LINCOLN SAW STANTON ABOUT IT.
- MRS. LINCOLN’S SURPRISE.
- MENACE TO THE GOVERNMENT.
- TROOPS COULDN’T FLY OVER IT.
- PAT WAS “FORNINST THE GOVERNMENT.”
- HIS TEETH CHATTERED.
- LINCOLN AND THE MINISTERS.
- HARDTACK BETTER THAN GENERALS.
- GOT THE PREACHER.
- BIG JOKE ON HALLECK.
- STORIES BETTER THAN DOCTORS.
- SHORT, BUT EXCITING.
- MR. BULL DIDN’T GET HIS COTTON.
- STICK TO AMERICAN PRINCIPLES.
- USED “RUDE TACT.”
- TAKING DOWN A DANDY.
- WHEN OLD ABE GOT MAD.
- WANTED TO “BORROW” THE ARMY.
- YOUNG “SUCKER” VISITORS.
- LIEUTENANT TAD LINCOLN’S SENTINELS.
- DOUGLAS HELD LINCOLN’S HAT.
- THE DEAD MAN SPOKE.
- MILITARY SNAILS NOT SPEEDY.
- OUTRAN THE JACK-RABBIT.
- HIS “BROAD” STORIES.
- SORRY FOR THE HORSES.
- MILD REBUKE TO A DOCTOR.
- COLD MOLASSES WAS SWIFTER.
- LINCOLN CALLS MEDILL A COWARD.
- THEY DIDN’T BUILD IT.
- STANTON’S ABUSE OF LINCOLN.
- THE NEGRO AND THE CROCODILE.
- LINCOLN WAS READY TO FIGHT.
- IT WAS UP-HILL WORK.
- LEE’S SLIM ANIMAL.
- SATISFACTION TO THE SOUL.
- WITHDREW THE COLT.
- TELLS AN EDITOR ABOUT NASBY.
- LONG AND SHORT OF IT.
- MORE PEGS THAN HOLES.
- LINCOLN MET CLAY.
- REMINDED “ABE” OF A LITTLE JOKE.
- HIS DIGNITY SAVED HIM.
- THE MAN HE WAS LOOKING FOR
- HIS CABINET CHANCES POOR.
- THE GENERAL WAS “HEADED IN”
- SUGAR-COATED.
- COULD MAKE “RABBIT-TRACKS.”
- LINCOLN PROTECTED CURRENCY ISSUES.
- LINCOLN’S APOLOGY TO GRANT.
- LINCOLN SAID “BY JING.”
- IT TICKLED THE LITTLE WOMAN.
- DEAD DOG NO CURE.
- THE CABINET WAS A-SETTIN’.
- A BULLET THROUGH HIS HAT.
- NO KIND TO GET TO HEAVEN ON.
- THE ONLY REAL PEACEMAKER.
- THE APPLE WOMAN’S PASS.
- SPLIT RAILS BY THE YARD.
- THE QUESTION OF LEGS.
- TOO MANY WIDOWS ALREADY.
- GOD NEEDED THAT CHURCH.
- THE MAN DOWN SOUTH.
- COULDN’T LET GO THE HOG.
- THE CABINET LINCOLN WANTED.
- READY FOR “BUTCHER-DAY.”
- GAVE THE SOLDIER HIS FISH.
- A PECULIAR LAWYER.
- IF THEY’D ONLY “SKIP.”
- FATHER OF THE “GREENBACK.”
- MAJOR ANDERSON’S BAD MEMORY.
- NO VANDERBILT.
- SQUASHED A BRUTAL LIE.
- PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S LAST PUBLIC ADDRESS.
- NO OTHERS LIKE THEM.
- CASH WAS AT HAND.
- WELCOMED THE LITTLE GIRLS.
- MOST VALUABLE POLITICAL ATTRIBUTE.
- ONE MAN ISN’T MISSED.
- IT LENGTHENED THE WAR.
- HIS THEORY OF THE REBELLION.
- RAN AWAY WHEN VICTORIOUS.
- WANTED STANTON SPANKED.
- STANTON WAS OUT OF TOWN.
- IDENTIFIED THE COLORED MAN.
- OFFICE SEEKERS WORSE THAN WAR.
- HE “SET ‘EM UP.”
- WASN’T STANTON’S SAY.
- DIDN’T KNOW GRANT’S PREFERENCE.
- NO FALSE PRIDE IN LINCOLN.
- EXTRA MEMBER OF THE CABINET.
- HOW LINCOLN WAS ABUSED.
- HOW “FIGHTING JOE” WAS APPOINTED.
- KEPT HIS COURAGE UP.
- A FORTUNE-TELLER’S PREDICTION.
- TOO MUCH POWDER.
- SLEEP STANDING UP.
- SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT ANOTHER BATTLE.
- LINCOLN UPBRAIDED LAMON.
- MARKED OUT A FEW WORDS.
- LINCOLN SILENCES SEWARD.
- BROUGHT THE HUSBAND UP.
- NO WAR WITHOUT BLOOD-LETTING.
- LINCOLN’S TWO DIFFICULTIES.
- WHITE ELEPHANT ON HIS HANDS.
- WHEN LINCOLN AND GRANT CLASHED.
- WON JAMES GORDON BENNETT’S SUPPORT.
- STOOD BY THE “SILENT MAN.”
- A VERY BRAINY NUBBIN.
- SENT TO HIS “FRIENDS.”
- GO DOWN WITH COLORS FLYING.
- ALL WERE TRAGEDIES.
- HOW LINCOLN “COMPOSED.”
- HAMLIN MIGHT DO IT.
- THE GUN SHOT BETTER.
- DIDN’T WANT A MILITARY REPUTATION.
- CONSCRIPTING DEAD MEN.
- LINCOLN’S REJECTED MANUSCRIPT.
- LINCOLN AS A STORY WRITER.
- LINCOLN’S IDEAS ON CROSSING A RIVER WHEN HE GOT TO IT.
- PRESIDENT NOMINATED FIRST.
- SAVED A LIFE.
- LINCOLN PLAYED BALL.
- HIS PASSES TO RICHMOND NOT HONORED.
- FEW, BUT BOISTEROUS.
- KEEP PEGGING AWAY.
- BEWARE OF THE TAIL.
- THERE WAS NO NEED OF A STORY.
- LINCOLN A MAN OF SIMPLE HABITS.
- HIS LAST SPEECH.
- FORGOT EVERYTHING HE KNEW BEFORE.
- LINCOLN BELIEVED IN EDUCATION.
- LINCOLN ON THE DRED SCOTT DECISION.
- LINCOLN MADE MANY NOTABLE SPEECHES.
- WHAT AILED THE BOYS.
- TAD’S CONFEDERATE FLAG.
- CALLED BLESSINGS ON THE AMERICAN WOMEN.
- LINCOLN’S “ORDER NO. 252.”
- TALKED TO THE NEGROES OF RICHMOND.
- HOW “JACK” WAS “DONE UP.”
- ANGELS COULDN’T SWEAR IT RIGHT.
- LINCOLN WASN’T BUYING NOMINATIONS.
- HE ENVIED THE SOLDIER AT THE FRONT.
- DON’T TRUST TOO FAR
- HE’D “RISK THE DICTATORSHIP.”
- WOULD SEE THE TRACKS.
- THE PRESIDENT HAD KNOWLEDGE OF HIM.
- ONLY HALF A MAN.
- GRANT CONGRATULATED LINCOLN.
- HOW STANTON GOT INTO THE CABINET.
- WHY HE WAS CALLED “HONEST ABE.”
- VERY HOMELY AT FIRST SIGHT.
- THE MAN TO TRUST.
- HE PROPOSED TO SAVE THE UNION.
- THE SAME OLD RUM.
- SAVED LINCOLN’S LIFE
- WOULD NOT RECALL A SINGLE WORD.
- OLD BROOM BEST AFTER ALL.
- IT WAS A FINE FIZZLE.
- A TEETOTALER.
- NOT TO “OPEN SHOP” THERE.
- WE HAVE LIBERTY OF ALL KINDS.
- TOM CORWINS’S LATEST STORY.
- A JURYMAN’S SCORN.
- HE “BROKE” TO WIN.
- WANTED HER CHILDREN BACK.
- SIX FEET FOUR AT SEVENTEEN.
- HAD RESPECT FOR THE EGGS.
- HOW WAS THE MILK UPSET?
- PRAISES HIS RIVAL FOR OFFICE.
- ONE THING “ABE” DIDN’T LOVE.
- THE MODESTY OF GENIUS.
- WHY SHE MARRIED HIM.
- NIAGARA FALLS.
- MADE IT HOT FOR LINCOLN.
- WOULDN’T HOLD TITLE AGAINST HIM.
- ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE.
- COULDN’T LOCATE HIS BIRTHPLACE.
- WHEN MONEY MIGHT BE USED.
- BIG ENOUGH HOG FOR HIM.
- THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER.
- FEW FENCE RAILS LEFT.
- THE “GREAT SNOW” OF 1830-31.
- CREDITOR PAID DEBTORS DEBT.
- HELPED OUT THE SOLDIERS.
- EVERY FELLOW FOR HIMSELF.
- NO “SECOND COMING” FOR SPRINGFIELD.
- HOW HE WON A FRIEND.
- NEVER SUED A CLIENT.
- THE LINCOLN HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
- RUNNING THE MACHINE.
- WAS “BOSS” WHEN NECESSARY.
- DON’T AIM TOO HIGH.
- NOT MUCH AT RAIL-SPLITTING.
- GAVE THE SOLDIER THE PREFERENCE.
- THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT SCARED.
- JEFF. DAVIS’ REPLY TO LINCOLN.
- HIS POOR RELATIONS.
- DESERTER’S SINS WASHED OUT IN BLOOD.
- SURE CURE FOR BOILS.
- PAY FOR EVERYTHING.
- BASHFUL WITH LADIES.
- SAW HUMOR IN EVERYTHING.
- SPECIFIC FOR FOREIGN “RASH.”
- FAVORED THE OTHER SIDE.
- LINCOLN AND THE “SHOW”
- TOOK PART OF THE BLAME.
- THOUGHT OF LEARNING A TRADE.
- LINCOLN DEFENDS FIFTEEN MRS. NATIONS.
- AVOIDED EVEN APPEARANCE OF EVIL
- WAR DIDN’T ADMIT OF HOLIDAYS.
- DAYS OF GLADNESS PAST.
- WOULDN’T TAKE THE MONEY.
- GRANT HELD ON ALL THE TIME.
- CHEWED THE CUD IN SOLITUDE.
- LINCOLN PAID HOMAGE TO WASHINGTON.
- STIRRED EVEN THE REPORTERS.
- WHEN “ABE” CAME IN.
- ETERNAL FIDELITY TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY.
- HE WASN’T GUILELESS.
- SWEET, BUT MILD REVENGE.
- DIDN’T TRUST THE COURT.
- HANDSOMEST MAN ON EARTH.
- THAT COON CAME DOWN.
- WROTE “PIECES” WHEN VERY YOUNG.
- GRAND, GLOOMY AND PECULIAR.
- ON THE WAY TO GETTYSBURG.
- STOOD UP THE LONGEST.
- A MORTIFYING EXPERIENCE.
- NO HALFWAY BUSINESS.
- DISCOURAGED LITIGATION.
- GOING HOME TO GET READY.
- ROUGH ON THE NEGRO.
- CHALLENGED ALL COMERS.
- HURRY MIGHT MAKE TROUBLE.
- SAW HIMSELF DEAD.
- EVERY LITTLE HELPED.
- ABOUT TO LAY DOWN THE BURDEN.
- LINCOLN WOULD HAVE PREFERRED DEATH.
- FASCINATED By THE WONDERFUL
- GRANT’S BRAND OF WHISKEY.
- HIS FINANCIAL STANDING.
- THE DANDY AND THE BOYS.
- GOOD MEMORY OF NAMES.
- SETTLED OUT OF COURT.
- THE FIVE POINTS SUNDAY SCHOOL.
- SENTINEL OBEYED ORDERS.
- WHY LINCOLN GROWED WHISKERS.
- LINCOLN AS A DANCER.
- SIMPLY PRACTICAL HUMANITY.
- HAPPY FIGURES OF SPEECH.
- A FEW “RHYTHMIC SHOTS.”
- OLD MAN GLENN’S RELIGION.
- LAST ACTS OF MERCY.
- JUST LIKE SEWARD.
- A CHEERFUL PROSPECT.
- THOUGHT GOD WOULD HAVE TOLD HIM.
- LINCOLN AND A BIBLE HERO.
- BOY WAS CARED FOR.
- THE JURY ACQUITTED HIM
- TOOK NOTHING BUT MONEY.
- NAUGHTY BOY HAD TO TAKE HIS MEDICINE.
- WOULD BLOW THEM TO H---.
- WALKED AS HE TALKED.
- THE SONG DID THE BUSINESS.
- A “FREE FOR ALL.”
- THREE INFERNAL BORES.
- LINCOLN’S MEN WERE “HUSTLERS.”
- A SLOW HORSE.
- DODGING “BROWSING PRESIDENTS.”
- A GREENBACK LEGEND.
- GOD’S BEST GIFT TO MAN.
- SCALPING IN THE BLACK HAWK WAR.
- MATRIMONIAL ADVICE.
- OWED LOTS OF MONEY.
- WANTED TO BE NEAR “ABE.”
- GOT HIS FOOT IN IT.
- SAVED BY A LETTER.
- HIS FAVORITE POEM.
- FIVE-LEGGED CALF.
- A STAGE-COACH STORY.
- THE “400” GATHERED THERE.
- ONLY LEVEL-HEADED MEN WANTED.
- HIS FAITH IN THE MONITOR.
- HER ONLY IMPERFECTION.
- THE OLD LADY’S PROPHECY.
- HOW THE TOWN OF LINCOLN, ILL., WAS NAMED.
- LINCOLN’S LAST OFFICIAL ACT.
- THE LAD NEEDED THE SLEEP.
- HOW LINCOLN TOOK THE NEWS.
- PROFANITY AS A SAFETY-VALVE.
- WHY WE WON AT GETTYSBURG.
- HAD TO WAIT FOR HIM.
- PRESIDENT AND CABINET JOINED IN PRAYER.
- BELIEVED HE WAS A CHRISTIAN.
- WITH THE HELP OF GOD.
- TURNED TEARS TO SMILES.
- LINCOLN’S LAST WRITTEN WORDS.
- WOMEN PLEAD FOR PARDONS.
- LINCOLN WISHED TO SEE RICHMOND.
- SPOKEN LIKE A CHRISTIAN.
- HAD CONFIDENCE IN HIM--“BUT--.”
- HOW HOMINY WAS ORIGINATED.
- HIS IDEA’S OLD, AFTER ALL.
- LINCOLN’S FIRST SPEECH.
- DIDN’T EVEN NEED STILTS.
- MIXED UP WORSE THAN BEFORE.
- COULD LICK ANY MAN IN THE CROWD.
- HIS WAY TO A CHILD’S HEART.
- HE’D RUIN ALL THE OTHER CONVICTS.
- IN A HOPELESS MINORITY.
- GOT THE LAUGH ON DOUGLAS.
- EVEN REBELS OUGHT TO BE SAVED.
- TRIED TO DO WHAT SEEMED BEST.
- NASHVILLE WAS NOT SURRENDERED.
- HE COULDN’T WAIT FOR THE COLONEL.
- LINCOLN PRONOUNCED THIS STORY FUNNY.
- JOKE WAS ON LINCOLN.
- THE OTHER ONE WAS WORSE.
- IT ALL “DEPENDED” UPON THE EFFECT.
- TOO SWIFT TO STAY IN THE ARMY.
- ADMIRED THE STRONG MAN.
- WISHED THE ARMY CHARGED LIKE THAT.
- NOT AS SMOOTH AS HE LOOKED.
- A SMALL CROP.
- A VAIN GENERAL.
- DEATH BED REPENTANCE.
- NO CAUSE FOR PRIDE.
- THE STORY OF LINCOLN’S LIFE
- A YOUTHFUL POET.
- MADE SPEECHES WHEN A BOY.
- ASSISTANT PILOT ON A STEAMBOAT.
- FAILURE AS A BUSINESS MAN.
- GAINS FAME AS A STORY TELLER.
- SURVEYOR WITH NO STRINGS ON HIM.
- A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE.
- THE FAMOUS “LONG NINE.”
- BEGINS TO OPPOSE SLAVERY.
- BEGINS TO PRACTICE LAW.
- HIS FIRST JOINT DEBATE.
- MARRIES A SPRINGFIELD BELLE.
- STORY OF ANNE RUTLEDGE.
- HIS DUEL WITH SHIELDS.
- FORMS NEW PARTNERSHIP.
- DEFEATS PETER CARTWRIGHT FOR CONGRESS.
- MAKES SPEECHES FOR “OLD ZACH.”
- DECLINES A HIGH OFFICE.
- LINCOLN AS A LAWYER.
- TELLING STORIES ON THE CIRCUIT.
- THE LION IS AROUSED TO ACTION.
- SEEKS A SEAT IN THE SENATE.
- HELPS TO ORGANIZE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
- WERE LIKE CROWDS AT A CIRCUS.
- HIS BUCKEYE CAMPAIGN.
- FIRST VISIT TO NEW YORK.
- FIRST NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT.
- FORMATION OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
- GOOD-BYE TO THE OLD FOLK.
- THE “SECRET PASSAGE” TO WASHINGTON.
- HIS ELOQUENT INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
- FOLLOWS PRECEDENT OF WASHINGTON.
- GREATER DIPLOMAT THAN SEWARD.
- LINCOLN A GREAT GENERAL.
- ABSOLUTE CONFIDENCE IN GRANT.
- REASONS FOR FREEING THE SLAVES.
- HARD TO REFUSE PARDONS.
- A FUN-LOVING AND HUMOR-LOVING MAN.
- WARNINGS OF HIS TRAGIC DEATH.
- LINCOLN AT THE THEATRE.
- LAMON’S REMARKABLE REQUEST.
- HOW LINCOLN WAS MURDERED.
- BOOTH BRANDISHES HIS DAGGER AND ESCAPES.
- WALT WHITMAN’S DESCRIPTION.
- BOOTH FOUND IN A BARN.
- BOOTH SHOT BY “BOSTON” CORBETT.
- FATE OF THE CONSPIRATORS.
- HENRY WARD BEECHER’S EULOGY.
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAMILY.
- LINCOLN MONUMENT AT SPRINGFIELD.