| Show an ode to abraham lincoln seii SS ii FIRST FIEST PRIZE ESSAY S sixty aty eight years have gone since our beloved abraham lincoln passed away but his memory still lingers on his afrank honest manly character remains as a standard for us to follow when abe lincoln was born no one realized what a great man he would become they could not know what a noble work he was to carry on some day he was only a common farm boy who lived in the backwoods of kentucky and was born of very poor parents just like the other boys of kentucky at that time his chances for an education were very small his mother taught him to read write and cipher at home and it Is said that he went to school but three days in his life he lived so tar far away a school house that it was quite un handy for him to attend school and work on the farm also in spite of 0 his many handicaps however this boy of the wilderness had a determination and a will power through hla his own ekas he raised up efrom the most humble lad ad to a celebrated celebrate preslie nt of the united states tt at an early age he developed a liking tor for books wherever lie was I 1 he usually had a book under his arm ile he read many books over and over and what he read was the best kind of literature that lie he could get the bible and the history of washington were hia two favorite pieces ot of literature it wis was through reading and hard study that he learned to be one of the best lawyers in kentucky at night when all the work outside had bad been done abe would lie on his stomach reading before the fireplace many times he would read far into the night perhaps his mother another had to force him to go to led bed just as our mothers do now when we are very much interested in our favorite books and we want to sit up all night reading in his physical form lincoln was very homely ile he was tall thin and rawboned raw boned his hair was waa long on and most of the th ti time me ba but as we all know looks do not always count it Is what a man lias inside him that makes him great Lincol ns heart was of 0 gold he had a way of drabin drawing people to him by his honest honesty Y wit rind an humor his friends could riot not be numbered not only did he have friends lands tr but he was a friend himself what a friend to tl the leNero negro slaves he proved to be when he treed freed them from bondage of course this great man had many enemies ras well as friends who were jealous of his hla biml achievements and who sought to destroy his good name to bo be sure lincoln took ciany a false step in life and lt it he failed once he considered that a fall is a chance to tise again lie he could not be downed because he had a great determination to t 0 win V in over the handicaps and trials of me life his life shows us that any man or woman whether rich or poor can achieve success in life it if they will but try CELIA COPE winner from grade |
