Lincoln and His Father

[RJNorton]

The story I am most familiar with is the one in which young Abe would be sitting on a fence. As strangers passed, he would strike up conversations with them out of curiosity. Abe would ask questions about the world. Thomas would react to Abe's behavior by knocking him off the fence. I do not know how true this story is, but I have seen it fairly frequently in Lincoln literature (with some variations of the details from book to book).