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Show LINCOLN AND THE COWARDLY BOY The February Issue of the Worn-nil's Worn-nil's yomo Companion sajs: "Ono day his generals brought caso after case to him, each deserving deserv-ing death; nnd each sontenco ho had managed, by ono argument or another, an-other, to com nut to. At length they brought him the final caeo a most flngrant ono. The boy had beon loved a coAvard in battlo; ho hod been convicted of stealing from Ills comrades; he had no relatives dependent de-pendent upon him. The nrgumonts wero all gono over; they wnlted for him to sign. But Lincoln turned to them: "I know ho deserves It, ho said, but I guess I'll put him In my leg cases." They aro tho cases that you call by that long name "Cownrdlce In tho faco of tho enemj," but I call them, for short, my "leg cases." If Almighty God has given a man a cowardly pair of legs how can ho help running away with them?" |