The book The Story of Abraham Lincoln for Young Readers was written by author Baldwin, James, 1841-1925 Here you can read free online of The Story of Abraham Lincoln for Young Readers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of Abraham Lincoln for Young Readers a good or bad book?
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Crawford thought that the book was worth seventy-five cents, and that Abraham's work would be worth about twenty-five cents a day. And so the lad helped the farmer gather corn for three days, and thus became the owner of the delightful book. He read the story of Washington many times over. He carried the book with him to the field, and read it while he was following the plow. From that time, Washington was the one great hero whom he admired. Why could not he model his own life after that of Was...hington ? Why could not he also be a doer of great things for his country ? THE STORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, V. — Life in the Backwoods. Abraham Lincoln now set to work with a will to educate himself. His father thought that he did not need to learn anything more. He did not see that there was any good in book-learning. If a man could read and write and cipher, what more was needed ? But the good step-mother thought differently ; and when another short term of school began in the little log school-house, all six of the children from the Lincoln cabin were among the scholars.
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