What did Mr. Lincoln enjoy doing?

[RJNorton]

Joseph G. Cannon, an Illinois political leader who served 46 years in Congress, reported that after Willie died Lincoln read from Shakespeare, finishing with the passage in King John where Constance bewails the loss of her son. Then Lincoln said, "Did you ever dream of some lost friend and feel that you were having a sweet communion with him, and yet have a consciousness that it was not a reality?....That is the way I dream of my lost boy Willie."