ABE LINCOLN'S YARNS AND STORIES

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LINCOLN'S YARNS AND STORIES Book has some wear after 110 years, but is in very good condition. Binding is solid. Photographs are in excellent condition. Book is signed by Colonel Alexander K. McClure, personal friend and advisor to President Lincoln. Book was signed in Philadelphia on March 15, 1901. Book came from the collection of my Great, great, great Uncle, M.V. Danford, who was Burser of Bethany College in the early 1900's. Book has been in storage at my Dad's for over 50 years. Commentary below on this book......A Complete Collection of the Funny andWitty Anecdotes that made Abraham LincolnFamous as America's Greatest Story TellerWith Introduction and AnecdotesBy Colonel Alexander K. McClureProfusely IllustratedTHE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANYCHICAGO & PHILADELPHIAABRAHAM LINCOLN, the Great Story Telling President, whoseEmancipation Proclamation freed more than four million slaves,was a keen politician, profound statesman, shrewd diplomatist, athorough judge of men and possessed of an intuitive knowledge ofaffairs. He was the first Chief Executive to die at the hands ofan assassin. Without school education he rose to power by sheermerit and will-power. Born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809, hissurroundings being squalid, his chances for advancement wereapparently hopeless. President Lincoln died April 15th, 1865,having been shot by J. Wilkes Booth the night before.PREFACE.Dean Swift said that the man who makes two blades of grass growwhere one grew before serves well of his kind. Considering howmuch grass there is in the world and comparatively how littlefun, we think that a still more deserving person is the man whomakes many laughs grow where none grew before.Sometimes it happens that the biggest crop of laugh is producedby a man who ranks among the greatest and wisest. Such a man wasAbraham Lincoln whose wholesome fun mixed with true philosophymade thousands laugh and think at the same time. He was a firmbeliever in the saying, "Laugh and the world laughs with you."Whenever Abraham Lincoln wanted to make a strong point he usuallybegan by saying, "Now, that reminds me of a story." And when hehad told a story every one saw the point and was put into a goodhumor.The ancients had Aesop and his fables. The moderns had AbrahamLincoln and his stories.Aesop's Fables have been printed in book form in almost everylanguage and millions have read them with pleasure and profit.Lincoln's stories were scattered in the recollections ofthousands of people in various parts of the country. Thehistorians who wrote histories of Lincoln's life remembered onlya few of them, but the most of Lincoln's stories and the best ofthem remained unwritten. More than five years ago the author ofthis book conceived the idea of collecting all the yarns andstories, the droll sayings, and witty and humorous anecdotes ofAbraham Lincoln into one large book, and this volume is theresult of that idea.Before Lincoln was ever heard of as a lawyer or politician, hewas famous as a story teller. As a politician, he always had astory to fit the other side; as a lawyer, he won many cases bytelling the jury a story which showed them the justice of hisside better than any argument could have done.While nearly all of Lincoln's stories have a humorous side, theyalso contain a moral, which every good story should have.They contain lessons that could be taught so well in no otherway. Every one of them is a sermon. Lincoln, like the Man ofGalilee, spoke to the people in parables.Nothing that can be written about Lincoln can show his characterin such a true light as the yarns and stories he was so fond oftelling, and at which he would laugh as heartily as anyone.For a man whose life was so full of great responsibilities,Lincoln had many hours of laughter when the humorous, fun-lovingside of his great natur... read more

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