Abe: Bub can you get me some new shoes
Bud: yes sir what size sir
Willie: why can't I do it pa
Abe: because he is older than you Will now I shall ask again Bud can you get me some new rubbers my old ones are rusted and muddy
Bud: yes sir what size sir
Abe: the biggest size you can get
Clerk: I think the president must have the largest feet (12/123) in Washington
Tad: we can do a urcis (circus) in pa's office
Bud: a circus but won't your pa get mad if we do it in his office
Tad: pa day won't care
Willie: these are two hundred pounder parrot siege guys
Abe: where'd you find that out
Willie: from the Bucktails outside the Presidents House hates we talk to them all the time
Abe: why is Jack hanging by his neck
Tad: Jacks a rebel py (spy) we have to file charges against him for treason and hanged him then we bury him in the garden then we dig him up the garden gets real mad at us pa day
Abe: you must not annoy the garden Taddie he is doing his job and he doesn't like little boys messing up his roses you know that your mother told you that last week
Tad: pa day I want a goat please
Abe: promise not to annoy the gardener
Tad: promise when can I have my goat
Abe: we will see in the morning in the meantime boys I don't think any rebel army is going to come up this who with your siege guns trained right on em no indeed they won't
Willie: you think we'll really scare em pa
Abe: scare the pants off em now come to dinner mama's waiting
Tad: can my goat hleep (sleep) in my bed with me pa day
Abe: he may turn up his nose at your bed and prefer the stable son we'll have to ask him
YOU ARE READING
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
