Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln In the rough work and the rough life of those days he could hold his own. He could sink an axe deeper into wood than any man I ever saw, writes one friend. Ou one occasion, when some men were preparing an apparatus to move some heavy posts, Lincoln quickly shouldered them, and carried them where they were needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.