"Do that again, Mac," said Uncle Abe. Mac complied. Uncle Abe was evidently struck with an idea, and Mac was anxious to know what it was like. "Why, Mac," said Uncle Abe, "I was thinking if we could get all our soldiers to make up that kind of a face, that the rebels couldn't stand it a moment." Mac didn't relish Uncle Abe's joke, as he was hopefully in pursuit of the third wife; but he put the best face he could upon the matter, and remarked to Uncle Abe-- "Perhaps you'd better make me a Brigadier then!" "And why not?" asked Uncle Abe. Mac got his commission. Uncle Abe Puzzled. Uncle Abe was met one day near Springfield, by a conceited coxcomb, who had built him a house at some distance, and invited him to dinner. Uncle Abe did not much relish the Jackenape's acquaintance. In fact, as Justice Shallow has it, had "written him down an Ass." However, Abe enquired very minutely, where Snooks lived? "Thistle Grove," replied the verdant Snooks; "but there's no grove now, and not a single thistle!" "Eh, what!" cries Uncle Abe, "not a single thistle! Then what on airth do you live on?" Uncle Abe Divided on a Question. In 1840 or '41, Uncle Abo was a member of the Illinois Legislature. The Capital had lately been removed from Vandalia to Springfield. The Legislature met in the Presbyterian church. I have forgotten what measure was before the house; but it was one in which there were many members who did not wish to commit themselves. Uncle Abe was in this predicament. He sat near an open window, and when the clerk, calling the ayes and nays had got down to L's, Uncle Abe thrust his right leg out of the window, and was just drawing its long companion after it, when an anti-dodging member "seeing the game," shut the sash down and held Uncle Abe in a trap. "Lincoln," called out the Clerk. "Mr. Speaker," said Col. Thornton, "Mr. Lincoln is _divided_ on this question, and I move you that the sergeant at arms be sent to bring in that part of him that is out of the window." Uncle Abe was "_brought in_" amid a universal titter, to his evident mortification. In 1840, the Union generally went for Harrison; but Illinois, particularly, was democratic. When the Legislature met in the Fall of that year, the Whig members tried to break up the _new_ Session by absenting themselves from voting to adjourn the old Session _sine die_, so that they could Constitutionally meet the next Wednesday morning; the State Constitution requiring the Legislature to meet "the first Monday in December next, ensuing the election of members." After the breaking up of the morning Session, the Sergeant-at-arms hunted up the delinquent Whigs, and at 3 o'clock there was a quorum obtained, and the doors locked. The Springfield _Register_ of Dec. 11, 1840, mentions this matter, but thinks Uncle Abe "come off without damage, as it was noticed that his legs reached nearly from the window to the ground!"