The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls (1909) (14777283424)

Identifier: lifeofabrahamlin01moor (find matches)
Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln for boys and girls
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Moores, Charles W. (Charles Washington), 1862-1923
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library



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kets, and put them on gTiard.When the confusion he had created was rej3orted toPresident Lincoln, he treated it as a joke, sent Tadto bed, and then relieved the novel guardsmen fromduty. The Lincoln childrens dogs and cats and goatsseemed to get their share of the busy Presidentsthoughts. When there were new puppies or kittens inthe family, he announced it in all seriousness to hisvisitors. When Tad was away with his mother, tele-grams kept the boy posted as to the welfare of hispets. In one of these dispatches the President said, Tell Tad the goats and father are very well, espe-cially the goats. In one of his letters to Mrs. Lin-coln he wrote : Tell dear Tad poor Nanny goat islost and Mrs. Cuthbert and I are in distress about it.The day you left, Nanny was found resting herself andchewing her little cud on the middle of Tads bed;but now she s gone. The gardener kept complainingthat she destroyed the flowers, till it was concluded tobring her down to the White House. . . . The second
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LINCOLN AND TAD PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT HOME 111 day she disappeared and has not been heard of since.This is the last we know of poor Nanny, In a laterdispatch he telegraphed his wife, All well, includ-ing Tads pony and the goats. Once in a while the boys would succeed in enticingtheir father into the gTounds, where they would playball with him, and in high glee keep him running thebases with his giant strides. For the children he waswilling to do anything. A boy of thirteen had displayed unusual couragein the gunboat service and sought the Presidents helpin getting into the Naval Academy. He bowed to thePresident and began to tell his story when he wasinterrupted by Mr. Lincolns hearty, Bless me!is that the boy who did so gallantly in those twogreat battles? Why, I feel that I should bow to himand not he to me. When the President found theboy was a few months too young to have his wish,he put his hand affectionately on his shoulder andsaid to him: Now, my boy, go home and have goodfun u