| Show tad Lincol ns r fast ast day picnic noah brooks in st if there was ever a boy in danger of bein spoiled it was the youngest T u son of president lincoln much I of the time it was impossible that he lie should not be left to run at large ho he was foolishly caressed and petted by people w who wanted favors of his father and who took this way of making a friend in the family as they thed thought he was I living iving in the midst mi st of a most exciting epoch in the count rys history then a buy boy in the white house wag was in a strange and somewhat unnatural atmosphere h e r c but I inin am bound to gay that vl tad d although he lie doubtless had his wi wits its sharpened by v being in such strange surroundings was never anything else while I knew him but a boisterous rollicking it and nd ab Bol sol real boy great was tada curiosity in 1864 to know what was meant by the presidents proclamation for a day of of fasting and jirayer prayer ilia his inquiries were not satisfactorily answered but from the servants he learned to his great dismay that there would be nothing eaten in ali the white house am from sunrise sunrise to sunse sunset t on fast day tho the boy who was blessed with a vigorous vi orous appetite took measured meas urea to escape from the tb rigors of the day it happened that just before fast day came the family carriage was brought out of its house to bo be cleaned and put in 11 order tad stood by with feelings of alarm while the general overhauling of the vehicle went on oil the coachman dusting rubbing nepul lin ling things about unconscious unconscious of ta aads tads s watch on the proceedings pretty soon drawing out a queer looking bundle from one of the boxes under the scat seat the man brought to li light bt a part of a loaf of bread broad some fits bits of cold meat meat and various various other fragments of food from tho the larder tad now ready to burst bunt with anger and disappointment cried oh t oh ob I give that up p isal my Fast Day picnic I the poor lad from dread of going hungry had cautiously hidden day after day a portion of food against the day of fasting and had lad stood by while his hoard board was in danger hop hoping ing that it might escape the eyes of the servants he was consoled by a promise I from his mother to whom he ran with his tale of woe that he be should not suffer hunger on fast day even though his father the president had bad proclaimed a day of fasting humiliation and prayer grayer for all the people |
