Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . fthat half dollar yet, as in the quick current it wentdown the stream and sunk from my sight forever. My father, he said, had suffered greatly forthe want of an education, and he determined at anearly day that I should be well educated. And whatdo you think he said his ideas of a good educationwere ? We had an old dog-eared arithmetic in ourhouse, and father determined that somehow, or some-how else, I should cipher clear through that book. With this standard of an education, he started toa school in a log-house in the neigh
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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln : by distinguished men of his time . fthat half dollar yet, as in the quick current it wentdown the stream and sunk from my sight forever. My father, he said, had suffered greatly forthe want of an education, and he determined at anearly day that I should be well educated. And whatdo you think he said his ideas of a good educationwere ? We had an old dog-eared arithmetic in ourhouse, and father determined that somehow, or some-how else, I should cipher clear through that book. With this standard of an education, he started toa school in a log-house in the neighborhood, andbegan his educational career. He had attended thisschool but about six weeks, however, when a calam-ity befell the father. He had endorsed some mansnote in the neighborhood, for a considerable amount, and the prospect was he would have it to pay, andthat would sweep away all their little possessions.His father, therefore, explained to him that he wantedto hire him out and receive the fruits of his labor, and his aid in averting this calamity. Accordingly, . EARLY HOME OF LINCOLN, IN ILLINOIS. BY LEONARD SIVETT. 459 at the expiration of six weeks, he left school, andnever returned to it again. These six weeks, there-fore, constitute the entire sum of his education inschool. From this time until he was about nineteen, he lived in Southern Indiana. He was a strong, athletic boy, good-natured, and ready to out-run, out-jump and out-wrestle or out-lift anybody in theneighborhood. There were in that vicinity a fewbooks which he literally devoured—the Bible, Shakes-peare, Bunyans Pilgrims Progress, Weems Life ofWashington, Weems Life of Marion, etc. He saidto me that he had got hold of and read throughevery book he ever heard of in that country for acircuit of about fifty miles. At the age of nineteen his father sold out hispossessions in Indiana, and loaded all their mova-ble goods upon a wagon, and Lincoln drove theoxen that hauled them upon this new migration west-ward. The