The Victory of Allen Rutledge a Tale of the Middle West
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" "How is that?" asked Mabel, very much inter- ested. "Did you never hear the story of Abraham Lin- coln and Ann Rutledge?" said Allan's mother, in surprise. "I must have forgotten it if I did, " said the girl, with a blush. "The world doesn't know much about that in- cident in Lincoln's life, " went on the good lady. "Such things are soon forgotten, but the influence of Ann Rutledge, who was a sister of Allan's grandpa, was one of the forces that helped to make Lincoln what he was. " "Tell me ...about it, " said Mabel eagerly, and Mrs. Rutledge told her the tender story of Abraham Lincoln's early love. "I often heard Allan's grandpa tell it, " Mrs. Rut- ledge began, "and I never tired of hearing him speak of his sweet sister, Ann. He used to tell how Abraham Lincoln first came to New Salem ALLAN RUT LEDGE 145 in Illinois, in the early thirties, and James Rut- ledge, his father, was one of the first men who saw what was in the coming President. He was so lank and ungainly that some thought he was only a lout, but James Rutledge that's Allan's great- grandfather, took to Lincoln from the start.
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