Show THE REAL As a story teller ho HC was with out a I 1 peer PITHY POINTED AND PUNGENT EST pure or of II 11 laii re ce never saw vulgarity isad bu but tho ling kin of t wit never sought to wound sowe or of ui ills art arl zjr 11 i JK 1 I T FIK joint autho ot t liln lc ln L copyright t abw by pros A aock cociu tiou I 1 XV mr lincoln Lincol nN will ill ile best known to pos posterity crity bv the pith print laid pungency gen y of nf his stone As a raconteur he will be known it recur to 0 o ine after his filmo famo as air president hiis has failed into the past tho the time will 1111 er come when one of Linc Lincol olur ns will not be listened to glenever Il he never enever told otle cue urt nt have an or moral and hs had one for every eberg ncy altac agh many of bi his recitals avie not in ill all respects s suited to the taj Ls of midd company coms cents still they for that ali st teason or in spite agnite cf it were all diore impressive and tilt ant many por per oil 7 abi AI iiii LIM ii r V 1862 sons may be opp opposed oizell to naughty iv iea he used to say but I 1 novel know knew ii nian to leave the tha room while oil ocic wit being told leonard soctt said of hain it if lie he told a good story that was wag refined and ald had a sharp point he did not like it any the better because it was refined if it was outrageously dalgai ho be never seemed to see gee that part of it if it had the charp ring of wit nothing ever readied hun but the wit arit almost any man mail that will tell a very vulgar segry ha lias in ill a degree a vulgar tr mind but it was not so with him with all his purity of character anil and malted morality and sensibility lity which no man can doubt when hunting linn ting for wit he had ball no abili ability I 1 y to discriminate between hp flip vulgar and the refined substances i from froni which lie hr extracted it it the wit he was after the pure jewel and lie ho would pick it cp out of the mail or dirt just as aa zv readily adaily as ile he would from a parlor tible A thorough master f all ithra phrases ses of frontier lif life fe and woodcraft mr lin lill most amusing stories storied consisted of cil incidents in his boyish days among ills his country playfellows play fellows iio he had bad a mar belons relish for everything rf that sort and the hap possible ible faculty of curnin turning 9 his numerous reminiscences to good account in after life lie ile had great faith in the common sew souse se of tile the country people and he gave them credit tor for greater intelligence than most men do ho he always maintained that the best stories originated with country tnt ry boys and in the rural districts hence the frequency frequez of lug log cabins boons bulls dogs etc in many of ills his narratives ile he could see amusing and oftentimes ludicrous elements in the commonplace things c t f lifo life which were passed unnoticed by others and if he could not narrate pome actual story in connection them ther with AIN it w as not dif fielt to improvise one drought brought up in ill a I 1 wilderness lie never con conceived what a i ball or hop wm was except excelia a as it represented i a shindig ph Fh indig aul and of light liter itura hp he knew not hing beyond bicky anvill williams laws courtship Courts bip and cousin sally billal d 11 his fg idea of classical music sie is exemplified in tile stand aud rhythm of daddy D bibly col cuine I 1 hold fold lie ife or tho the down leister an anil 1 the bull BOIL lie ho would have a show to handels andels 11 ll cisiah dan hires circus to it a lee t uro lure on oil art and at vinus wards I 1 IG cicat reat aho to ti Enier sons euyn I guyy his wit was and alli no allegory avelt iwillor I 1 or i im of hi cac r stung or w there J ari anil I yet tic no man mail ever er had willi iosi I 1 a kingle i ewt t eption to bump cum III that lie he fent a i b baab a I 1 I 1 I 1 mi a it hi liis q ro final I 1 L cheit is after ill all ili no better war nay to brinsont brin gont out this str stry tellei tel lui trait fruit of mr air t hun tu n bilbra Jil Bra a few A f the things bilings in he N us as wout to ur liar rare ram to tin this will I 1 fear evoke from froll somo persons more or less lehs censorious ceci ci iti cism ln list i 1 eg legardis ardis of beitch a protest I 1 fancy of ci w avitt ati as lir lar it na i ih inny coille po ille taboo to faeo und and feel the ill pre cne or of the real cuu mid and 11 some of I 1 luieco herr I 1 things hill may grite grato 1 11 I lude halk li lily yet liosi ot of it ii who want to tn know bini im anil ill all there was of milt mner ennst tale lalo hin him dinst ai he wa liven so io great a i critic uri 1 a I master of pure plire english 14 could conail ht hi e ill alio nl hi broad rond humor hp ho wrote running baily ri aily in alii jocular talk in ill which lie ho delighted aud and in ill IN inch ho he excelled v us its a I 1 lich ich gift att to this I 1 v ise man mail it ir enabled hini to kip his hoeret to d meet inget c acry cry kind of a ina man athe I 1 and ami every antuk iu in society to take off the edge vf of the severest decisions to mask ins its uni hii a pur purdom joso mid and sound his bis and to eadeh with truo frue instinct the temper of my foni company lie ho adlia sed and mure mort tatu all it ir is n to a null i govere 1 ili nid and crisps ill tin nit m ill active good a sloe still and is ii i i tile f the overdriven binim agamet euid ant in I 1 I 1 sanity sanita shortly after mr Lincol ns arrival iu in wil ashington in 1861 a friend v hoar hat red rf and contempt tir for bach overcame his hia betts r asked hini hijii if ho bi intended on oil inauguration day dat to rido to tho the capitol with tho the retiring president preside ut in a carriage hf would RO alnico that remind i sine EM he be nn of ill the man at in melean mclean county ills clin having I 1 tilt the appearance pe arance of a quaker was iad when it ho arose to notify in coart mccther li i md to sevear or affirm 1 I dont care a 1 d 1 11 1 bich was wa the coply with an all fund and iid an unusually ave mcd tor for alimi ji toi and anecdotes it in it a gaoat ei ait ii rong to sir mr Lincol ns memory to believe that thai lie ho was always telling them cr thit that being devoid of other oilier things to occupy hi mind lie ho told them simply to kill time lime it will was ili his pastime find and served flip dc dible 11 purpose ot of relieving hi bi f bram after severe mortal mental application and of if driving away the lie atino atmosphere sphere ef ct that so often his big huoy buoy tilt art nature A foreign lawyer that is one not brought up on tho the circuit ou on listening to Lincol ns argument ar before a 1 jury in edgar county criticized criticised him oc lc can canic SC he be lost too much time thine tolling st stories all ali my friend fri erd retorted usher F linder dont jay the flattering une tion to your tour soul that lincoln is losing tune time tic ile is lile Tan hp he bre breaks alks to win will iu in profound such is as his political sp ach es cs and official utterances stories cut of lie ho never used them but in appeals before country juries juno and aad during his big moments of ease case at the tavern they were his most tri useful nud and convenient implements clements ts it ia almost impossible no to determine which of his narratives v ere un a dad I 1 were second 7 ay hamd many pf af them biere acro invented an mil 1 strung together on the spot arid othela antedated Rab rabelais olais the following story evidently not orist nil with hoci he ha told a few days after ili ii return froin froia congress ir t the 0 spring of 1819 1849 18 19 in a artora store in in tile the pres presence euce of four persons tv tia 0 of cf them being william butler and abner abaer Y kuis ellig my account is front from alio lat tars MS which I 1 hold and which was written in m 1863 the Mil Mill kriti crite move meni anent in the forties suggested to him the story of the tailor and aid ilia redlin ad ed wife who previous pre riou to ending the hill and donning their ascension asee lisien robes had agreed to malce make a caleau breaston brea breast of such things as for obvious ren ref tolis ons they hall had withheld from each cach other knowledge knowl edgo begin s aid said tho husband well dear responded ho ale w wife ife looking down and digging her toca in tise the conr little is not your child whose is he asked hils husband band the on cue eyed eved shoe shoemaker makel S A said tire wife and what chat about dirl his father is brown tile i the creek capek and who tilio do ho he mthr i hildren belong to gasped the now aa sis it dished oh 01 they bel ng to uthe alir neighborhood coolly ansil ercil tile the ilife ditc well then hi idled Gl Abnel blow your horn hom im ready to g go now tile tho mirthful mirth fal element in mr air L ln A collis too luo min misunderstood ancl erst eod and nd lie he hiis has in con cons consi i quence been becia too efti eky cly cons c kv by certain prim and inflexible people illo charge him with irreverent ino verent and ur undignified aig conduct te very abaid abandon cn and levity of cf which alse people coin complain plain was ivas often tile tho shield with which he be warded aff fl the more nor serious thru ts adlinde by his how flow foin thiro are arc who could by bv forte fort e tf f will their anguish condral the cliV chagrin rit a he n w was as so sa often juiced to do and divert their thoughts a deep funereal ahm acl to express expressions ions of indifference a and d mil I 1 h 1 to who besought liim ili in to make more emr em Attic anti and frequent arc archival rival rf df r f ter perance rather than his tempo ritte pro proclivities cliv ties lie he would tell the story ft tile the in the ahli noi i itaro to eboni was re referred ferreda a bill to arre acro effectively the sale ale of liquors liquor oje oie member ber that the bill should bi arf returned to the hoesr with the he report that tho the committee could such radical meaK rt at that tinie time that is wholly needless needle need lehs sISaia rs iid another ember rl hir for tile I 1 loce cf tile committee are a mor declaration of their pe era lice yome home cl cf mr Lincol ns outbursts were nicu ami betag gli table as much from the fill I 1 and cong lull when then they cron rud as irrin the abe inlo reut fun they contained r arld some soine were so oda all it I 1 to ehni with oin fine s notion cl cf good belat bel adi at bior mr Horri tilou ling has told of liri bil I 1 red griffaw at 1 I i arad lug his givon ill a bya ay d jadv t in ill 11 who hart recited eilf pico kiisk miss flora flira merlia soy bey and ud jumps lies E murdock the monr ui qually ninn ni and one jay day reint q fit latter 1 I i iv if was mag mard anft tin tho avo litle hiim l vania nr in ill washington tle the stul fial turing shinn if john bromn they v alvere crr v ailed iu in tilt 11 tiler aller hifle ld hy by tl of d cihon i and ivil boines Illing hil ill ui the hc roll if tho ali will war SOUK in tin the of this excising wane i 1 avil into a mail trev tree on oil tilt 1 d I all where lie clung ft f hi er raf I 1 f the pi bising sing crowd called forto fi iti ly by the strange antics in tic hp he was ivas exhibiting in ill hii big efforts to irn tho swaying io tiou tion of tile the t libit stem which bent beneath ins its weigh mr Lincol ns attention was u ard for a inocent and lie ho paused in tho the conver in ill n aich lie was dimply Itic tei and in an manner mini nr vat with a droll cast of nf the cyr y L and IN malt tilt a nod 2101 of the head and pointing in it the direction of the man mail lie he repeated in ili ili dry and peculiar terance rit felting ful lowing Ting old fashioned fasli couplet and hp he dul dill clin climb 1 a t tw hit ei bortl and katr r tur for t co ce amid tile laughter of those who had ed crl tin tilt incongruity of if tilt flip scene mr ayr resul resulted ned ilia so corlou rlou loue out as it if nothing hall had happened |