Show grut heart LA nr cold winter day lin coin saw a poor fellow named ab trent treat hard at work u ork chopping up tip a house which mr A ir hill had bad employed him to con vert into flie filewood wood ab was barefooted bareto barefo otel and shiv ered painfully while he worked lincoln watched Nat ched him a few moments and asked him w what hat he v was as to get for the job ab answered ans ered one dollar and pointing to his naked and suffering buffering feet bald that he wished to buy a pair of shoes lincoln seized the axe and ordering the bo to comfort himself at the nearest fire chopped up the house so fast that ab and the owner were nere both amazed when they saw it done according to mr ir rut ledge alb ab remembered this act with the liveliest gratitude once he being a cast iron democrat determined to vote ote against his pirty and for mr ift lincoln LIncol nt but the friends as he afterwards said with mith tears in his res made him dink and he voted against abe thus he did not even linne an opportunity to rt neuin tui n the noble nobe con duct of mr lincoln by this small measure of hanla t |