Abraham vs. Thomas

[LincolnMan]

Found this in Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 by Albert Beveridge pertaining to Abraham and his father Thomas: "Lincoln began to make speeches as early as his fifteenth year. He would mount a tree stump, or stand upon a fence and talk to his fellow workers, who would leave their jobs in fields or woods to listen. His father would come and make him quit, send him to work...His father had to make him quit sometimes, as he would quit his own work to speak and made the other children as well as the men quit their work." This passage sheds a further light on Lincoln's activities. He was not only sometimes reading or sometimes daydreaming but he also made speeches and tried them out during work time with others who were also supposed to be working. No wonder Thomas Lincoln did what he did.