Show F ahon as a malbur Yoc jr I 1 F Lincol ns trip down the mississippi Allesta sippi on a flatboat lla thoat innumerable tales hay hav been told pi chaps the best of these de acs bribes albes the voyage which he made in the employ of a merchant named darned offutt loaded with barrel pork hogs bogs and corn the boat set get out from S ang iman town as soon BOOD as finished mr air ollett was on board to act as aa his own super cargo intending to pick up additions to hla his stock along the hanks banks of tho the two ta 0 illinois ahers down doun which ho he was anas about to pass on the istle of april they arrived at new salera salem a little tillage destined to be the scene of the seyen eventful years of mr air lincoln a 8 life which immediately fol followed lomed the conclusion of the present trip just below new asilom the boat stuck tor for one night might and the better pai t of a day on rutledge a mill dam one end of it hanging banging over the dam and the other sunk aunt deep in the water ater behind here was a case tor for abes ingenuity and he exercised it with effect quantities of water were being taken in at the stern the lading was sliding backwards and everything indicated that the rude craft was cag in momentary danger of breaking in two or sinking but abe suggested some unheard of mp adient for keeping it in pla e while tho the eugo was shifted to a borre borrowed ived bt bot and then boring a hole bole in that part of the bottom extending over the dam am he ha I 1 rigged up tip an equally strange of machinery for tilting and holding it willa the water ran out all new was waa assembled on shore watching the progress ot of this hingular experiment and with one voice affirm that abo abe saved the boat although nobmi Is 13 able to tell us precisely how bow the adventure turned abes thoughts to the class clas 3 of dif licul tics bics one of which he b hid bid id just surmounted and the result of hla his reflections was asas an improved method tor for lifting vessels over shoals offutt declai declared ed that when he got back aiom new orleans he would build a steamboat for the navigation of the sangamon and make abe the captain he would build it for runners tor for ice and rollers for shoals and dams for with bo ba in command by thunder shed have to go |