Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

Kudos, David! It was a goat. According to the story the neighborhood boys were riling up the goat and trying to get the goat to butt people as they walked by. Abraham Lincoln walked by and got hold of the goat's horns and told the goat what I stated in the question. The story is on p. 313 in volume II of Sandburg's "The Prairie Years."

I remember "the story of the neighborhood boys riling up the goat" and standing by to see the fun, but I did not read the "story on p. 313 in volume II of Sandburg's "The Prairie Years." I do not remember where I read it, but I remember Lincoln stooping down and looking the goat "eye to eye" and explaining his position to the goat. It must have been one of the boys who told the story to a biographer many years later.