Extra Credit Questions
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10-11-2023, 09:24 AM
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RE: Extra Credit Questions
(10-10-2023 01:22 PM)RJNorton Wrote: Yes, Anita. Well done! Roger, I found this post (in part) that I made on May 12, 2014: I wish to add two more stories on the subject from one of my favorite Lincoln books -- "Lincoln Talks, a Biography in Anecdote" by Emanuel Hertz. One story is directly on point; the second story has a tangential "animal kindness" reference. 1) We had passed through a thicket of wild plum and crab trees, and stopped to water our horses, when Hardin came up alone. "Where is Lincoln?" we all inquired. "Oh," replied he, "when I saw him last he had caught two young birds which the wind had blown out of their nest, and he has been hunting for the nest so as to put them back." In a short time Lincoln came up, having found the nest. The party laughed at him but he said: "I could not have slept if I had not restored those little birds to their mother." -- Joshua F. Speed (page 95) "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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