 When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, sit down, take a book, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read.  American Pioneers - Page 238by William Augustus Mowry, Blanche (Swett) Mowry - 1905 - 363 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...essays and arithmetical exercises, which he would shave off and begin again. It is touching turned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." * The picture... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 pages
...last longer than any others." "When Abe and I returned to the house from work," writes John Hanks, -he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, sit down, take a book, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read. We grubbed, plowed, weeded,... | |
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 604 pages
...cannot describe some of Abe's habits better than John has described them for us: " When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 pages
...Hanks, who went to live with the Lincolns, as we have said, when Abraham was fourteen, says, — " When Abe and I returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cross his legs as high as his head, and read. He... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - 1882 - 162 pages
...cannot describe some of Abe's habits better than John has described them for us : 'When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down in a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He and... | |
 | Henry Curwen - 1884 - 338 pages
...which he put down all things, and thus preserved them." Again, John Hanks says : — " When Lincoln, Abe and I, returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of cornbread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. He and... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...reminds us of Chaucer's description of his love of reading in The House of Fame : — ' When Lincoln — Abe and I — returned to the house from work, he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down on a chair, cock his legs up high as his head, and read. . .... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 282 pages
...language." How he contrived at the age of fourteen to absorb information is thus told by John Hanks: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he...go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, sit down, take a book, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read. We grubbed, plowed, mowed, and... | |
 | William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik - 1889 - 278 pages
...language." How he contrived at the age of fourteen to absorb information is thus told by John Hanks: "When Abe and I returned to the house from work he...go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn bread, sit down, take a book, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read. We grubbed, plowed, mowed, and... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...though without enthusiasm; but when his employer's day was over, his own began. John Hanks says : " When Abe and I returned to the house from work he would go to the cupboard, snatch a piece of corn-bread, take down a book, sit down, cock his legs up as high as his head, and read." The picture... | |
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