Extra Credit Questions

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Kudos, Eva. Indeed it was Elizabeth Edwards. And, Gene, you win as you also mentioned the right answer.

You both win a beautiful August weekend.

There are some unique stories regarding Lincoln and women. Here is one:

"Lincoln was fully capable of depicting women, or at least some of them, as ridiculous creatures. One day when the streets of Springfield were even more a muddy hog-wallow than usual, Lincoln and a friend amused themselves by watching a woman with flowing skirts and a fancy, plumed hat trying to make her way across the avenue by Hoffman’s Row. After initial success, she slipped and fell backward in the mire. At this point Lincoln quipped, ‘Reminds me of a duck.’ His companion, playing the straightman, inquired ‘How is that?’ Lincoln replied: “Feathers on her head and down on her behind."

Source: Joseph E. Suppliger, The Intimate Lincoln, p. 81.