VIII.--THE PARABLE PREACHES IN THE WILDERNESS 100 IX.--AUNT INDIANA'S PROPHECIES 108 X.--THE INDIAN RUNNER 115 XI.--THE CABIN NEAR CHICAGO 122 XII.--THE WHITE INDIAN OF CHICAGO 133 XIII.--LAFAYETTE AT KASKASKIA.--THE STATELY MINUET 140 XIV.--WAUBENO AND YOUNG LINCOLN 156 XV.--THE DEBATING SCHOOL 166 XVI.--THE SCHOOL THAT MADE LINCOLN PRESIDENT 177 XVII.--THOMAS LINCOLN MOVES 184 XVIII.--MAIN-POGUE 196 XIX.--THE FOREST COLLEGE 202 XX.--MAKING LINCOLN A "SON OF MALTA" 214 XXI.--PRAIRIE ISLAND 218 XXII.--THE INDIAN PLOT 229 XXIII.--FOR LINCOLN'S SAKE 236 XXIV.--"OUR LINCOLN IS THE MAN" 251 XXV.--AT THE LAST 265 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The rescue _Frontispiece_ The Tunker school-master's class in manners 14 Lines written by Lincoln on the leaf of his school-book 22 Story-telling at the smithy 35 The home of Abraham Lincoln when in his tenth year 55 Aunt Olive's wedding 68 Abraham as a peace-maker 90 Black Hawk tells the story of Waubeno 118 A queer place to write poetry 160 Sarah Bush Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's step-mother 217 The approach of the mysterious Indian 240 The Lincoln family record 250 Abraham Lincoln, the man 262 IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCED. "Boy, are there any schools in these parts?" "Crawford's." "And who, my boy, is Crawford?" "The schoolmaster, don't yer know? He's great on thrashing--on thrashing--and--and he knows everything. Everybody in these parts has heard of Crawford. He's great." "That is all very extraordinary. 'Great on thrashing, and knows everything.' Very extraordinary! Do you raise much wheat in these parts?" "He don't thrash wheat, mister. Old Dennis and young Dennis do that with their thrashing-flails." "But what does he thrash, my boy--what does he thrash?" "He just thrashes boys, don't you know."