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Show j Bowln Greene's fu:.craL vvrv ,,EN Dowiia Vj y' B (!rn- "fe-long it a 9 frl"'"l. died. Ill llQ I at:'. Mr. Lincoln, 111 ff H then In the enloy. VJV ment of great local reputation, under took to deliver a funernl oration over the remains of his beloved friend; but when be rose to apeak, his voire was choked with deep emotion; he stood a few moments, mo-ments, while his lips quivered In the effort to form the words of fervent praise he sought to utter, and the tears ran down his yellow and ahrlveled cheeks. Borne of thoae who came to bear him, and sw his tnll form thus away In alienee over the body of Dow-Un Dow-Un Oreene, say he looked so helpless, o utterly bereft and pitiable, that ,-;., T.'-T' 8 f" I' , "- n, !' . . i r T -Hi. ';;.!''";:' ' .'' .v "' 'wiaaaiaa,. 4: ..-' ' The Old Ilnaaa. every heart In the audience waa hushed at the apectaclo. After repeated repeat-ed efforts, be fouud It ln,yoalblo to apeak, and atrode away, opeuly and bitterly aohhlng, to the widow's carriage. car-riage. In which he waa driven from the acene. llowlln Greene bad loaned Mr. Lincoln bc.ka from their earliest acquaintance, and ou one occasion had taken him to bis home, and cared for him with tho solicitude of a devoted friend through several weeks of great aufferlug and peril. |
