Gannon: i tell you Mr President if this doesn't stop_.
Abe: Gannon Captain Gannon take that hose away from the boy
Gannon: you little rascal there I'll teach you to turn on the hose on the Secretary of War and on me too you little villain
Abe: there captain I reckon that's about enough thank you say Gannon as you go to change your clothes won't you please take the boy to his mother or someone in the house he's all wet too
Tad: that Gannon had no right to spank me
Abe: well you had no right to turn on the hose on him and it was still worse for you to soak Mr Stanton he is a failed man and for from well so you might have given him his death or cold drenching him the way you did what Mr Stanton was saying to me was for the real good of the army and the best interest of the country Tadpole it's so hard for pa day to have be the one to decide what to do every time yet I can't bear to let a poor boy get shot just for being sleepy or not doing some little thing or other I think how your mother would feel if that was her boy it doesn't seem like I can strain much longer if there's anyone out of he'll that suffers more than your pa day dose I pity from the bottom of my heart
Tad: pa day I didn't know I didn't understand I'll never soak that Stanton again
Abe: that's right my boy you do your part and I'll try to do mine you Stanton and I will win the war and save the Union your a big help to pa day Taddie yes you are and must not be too hard on poor old Stanton you see he hasn't have any little boys to help him so he has a lot to learn about boys and we'll have to bear in mind that's there's a great deal that we don't know you and I will have to learn to forgive other folks for what they don't know
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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
