Willie: president of the whole United States I don't think I heard him right
Abe: Will it's a derby race and I've got a plow horse's chance but if somebody doesn't shake these southern blockheads in Washington by the ears we'll be living in a different country next year slavery's going to spilt up America the way an axe cuts an Apple
Willie: all of the last year Mr Douglas and pa debated up and down the state of Illinois Mr Douglas was for slavery being allowed in every state pa was against it Mr Douglas won the election but pa got to be famous all the way to Boston and New York for his speeches he ordered us Oyster Roast Quail Steak Royale and Sherbet Jenny Lind we eat every bit of it who's Jenny Lind
Abe: she is the best lady singer in the world that is why they named the ice cream after her tomorrow night we will go and hear her at Mcvickers Theater
Willie: pa loves entertainment when he was a boy he had no entertainment ever Bob told me and Tad that when pa was a boy he lived in a pint little shake in the middle of the wild forest however it is we don't ever see any kin from the Lincoln side only mama's people the Todd's live in Lexington in the morning we go to the Cook Country Courthouse pa puts on his glasses and commencing two hours of lawyer work i sit in a window seat and read everything in the Chicago Tribune News across the room pa winks at me he's taking to heavy suited other lawyers who smoke cigars and chew big was a of tobacco I hate that so dose pa somewhere a noon whistle blows we are suddenly free we hope on the DearBorn street horse toliye the first stop pa is Mr Steinway
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The Lincoln Boys
Non-Fictiondiscover the story of the sons of Abraham Lincoln Robert Eddie Willie and Tad you will go in the minds of Ulysses S Grant Willie and Tad to the day they were born to Abe's death
