Abe Lincoln : an anthology

Paulmier, Hilah. (Added Author).

Item details

Physical Description: print
306 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Knopf, 1953.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

One morning of February 12, 1809 / Carl Sandburg -- 1809 / Lloyd E. Budd -- "He'll never come to much" / Jess M. Weik -- The coming of Lincoln / Edwin Markham -- Ballad of the Lincoln Penny / Afred Kreymborg -- "I will never kill another bird" / Mollie C. Wichester -- The scribbler of Knob Creek / Ulrich Lancaster -- "Kinda sets you figgerin', lookin' at the stars" / Bruce Lancaster -- "God wanted to use Abe for a big purpose / J. Rogers Gore -- Abe dreams of making a speech / J. Rogers Gore -- Lincoln / Wilbur D. Nesbit -- Young Abe preaches a sermon against cruelty / Mollie C. Winchester -- He "pulls fodder" to pay for a book / Hilah Paulmier -- "It ain't reasonable" / William E. Wilson -- "Boy, you have something in you worth having" / Irving Bacheller -- "The boy picked up that air hen house and sot it down again" / William E. Wilson -- He has a controversy in a mud hole / Hilah Paulmier -- Lincoln / James Whitcomb Riley -- He wades through an icy stream to rescue a little dog / Hilah Paulmier -- A mighty smart chap / Ina M. Tarbell -- He accepts a challenge to a wrestling match / Benjamin P. Thomas -- He splits rails to earn a pair of trousers / James Baldwin -- He finds a set of Blackstone / Hilah Paulmier -- He fed his spirit with the bread of books / Edwin Marham -- Captain Lincoln solves a problem in military tactics / Hilah Paulmier -- He makes his first political speech / Charles Carleton Coffin -- "You two ever goin' to bed?" / Kunigunde Duncan and D. F. Nickols -- "I am moved!" / Charles Carleton Coffin -- "Do you see what I see?" / Olive Carruthers and R. Gerald McMurtry -- How the Lincoln house in Springfield became a two-story building/ Ross F. Lockbridge -- He makes a short speech to an angry goat / Carl Sandburg -- Lincoln settles a case for "Uncle Tommy" / Colonel Alexander K. McClure -- "Your son will be free before sundown / Enid Lamont Meadowcroft -- They got the point and Abe won the case / Ross F. Lockridge -- "I didn't think Abe had it in him" -- Winston Churchill -- The greatest men rise from the people / Winston Churchill -- Two rails have a part in a nomination / William Roscoe Thayer -- "I shall provide cold water, nothing else / William Eleroy Curtis -- "Well, what's he really like?" / Elswith Thane -- "So help me, I believe he will try to save us" / Elswith Thane -- He recieves advice from a young admirer / Charles Carlton Coffin -- "Well Mother, I've been elected" / Anne Colver -- The atmosphere was electric / Hollister Noble -- "There is one thing likely to come out of this scrape" / James Morgan -- "If I live, I'm coming back sometime" / W. H. Herndon and J. W. Wier -- He bids farewell to his Springfield friends / William E. Barringer -- "You see, Grace, I have let my whiskers grow for you / Charles Carleton Coffin -- Mr. Lincoln is pale and nervous at his inauguration / Allen Thorndike Rice -- He plays nurse at the inaugural ball / The ghost of Abraham Lincoln / Bess Furman -- He makes a momentous decision / Honoré Willsie Morrow -- "Get down, you fool!" / Bess Furman -- "The President is the best of us" / Hilah Paulmier -- "I wonder the end of the state didn't tip up" / Henry C. Whitney -- A hero / Florence Earl Coates -- He grieves over the death of a dearly loved friend / Colonel Alexander K. McClure -- The cabinet was "a-settin'" / Colonel Alexader K. McClure -- A farmer remembers Lincoln / Witter Bynner -- "The fox reformed" / David Homer Bates -- The doll "Jack" is pardoned / Julia Taft Bayne -- He "fixes things up" with Tad / Benjamin P. Thomas -- The humility of it was infinitely touching / Ellery Sedgwick -- "No, madam, you stay right where you are" / Emanuel Hertz -- "Did you see a tall, dark-complexioned man ... ?" / Rufus Rockwell Wilson -- "You don't wear hoops, I will spare your brother / Rufus Rockwell Wilson -- "It seemed as if I had been in the habit of seeing him daily / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "Dat's Massa Linkun" / I. E. Chittenden -- Daniel Webster and the schoolmaster / L. E. Chittenden -- Is it not odd that a divine message should be sent by way of Chicago?" / Rufus Rockwell Wilson -- He discusses a momentous decision with his cabinet / J. W. Schuckers -- That will do / Hilah Paulmier -- "Now dey're nobody's niggers but dere own" / T. Morris Longstreth -- Uncle Ben's story of divine preparation / John E. Washington -- An old colored man gives Lincoln a hearty laugh / John E. Washington -- President Lincoln shakes hands with Daddy Joe / Anne Colver -- "Now we've had the greatest day of our lives" / Elsie Singmaster -- "I see the President almost every day" / Walt Whitman -- "I wish some one would come help me to let the hog go" / William E. Barton -- President Lincoln has a narrow escape / Emil Ludwig -- "What did you do with the whetsstone" / Edna M. Colman -- The Lord prefers the common-looking people / James Morgan -- He visits the colored troops at City Point / General Horace Porter -- Lincoln's "leg causes" / Norman Hargood -- "I treated that man shamefully" / Anthony Gross -- For of such was his happiness / Winston Churchill -- "I felt safe. I trusted him" / Ben Ames Williams -- "There shall be no revenge" / Honoré Willsie Morrow -- Now he belongs to the ages / Ardyth Kennelly -- Nobly did he fulfull his work / Jones Very -- Night and day journeys a coffin / Walt Whitman -- The soldiers at the front learned of Lincoln's death / George Haven Putnam -- Hushed by the camps to-day / Walt Whitman -- "The President'll live on" / Bess Steeter Aldrich -- He perished in the cause of right / William Cullen Bryant -- He leads us still / Arthur Gutterman -- O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman -- Speeches.