Abraham Lincoln - 1894 Author:Noah Brooks Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. YOUNG MANHOOD. Thomas Lincoln's Second Marriage—Improvements in the Backwoods Home—More Books for the Boy—His Horizon Enlarges—He Learns to... more » be Thorough—Down the Mississippi—A Glimpse of Slavery— Coming out of the Wilderness. IN the autumn of 1819, Thomas Lincoln went off somewhere into Kentucky, leaving the children to take care of themselves. What he went for, and where he went, the youngsters never thought of asking. But in December, early one morning, they heard a loud halloo from the edge of the forest; and, dashing to the door, they beheld the amazing sight of the returning traveller perched in a four-horse wagon, a pretty-looking woman by his side, and a stranger driving the spanking team. Was it a miracle ? We might think so if we knew Thomas Lincoln as well as his son did afterwards ; for Thomas had returned with a step-mother for his little ones. He had married, in Eliza- bethtown, Kentucky, Mrs. Sally Johnston, formerly Miss Sally Bush. It is believed that to Miss Sally, Thomas Lincoln had paid court before he married her who was the mother of Abraham Lincoln. She had been known to the lad, years ago, in Kentucky; and now that she hadcome to be the new mother to Abe and his sistet, they were glad to see her. The gallant four-horse team was the property of Ralph Krume, who had married Sally Johnston's sister; and in the wagon was stored what seemed to these children of the wilderness a gorgeous array of housekeeping things. There were tables and chairs, a bureau with real drawers that pulled out and disclosed a stock of clothing, crockery to replace the rude tins that were used in the Lincoln homestead ; bedding, knives and forks, and numerous things that to people nowadays are thought to be among the necessaries of life, but which Nancy Linco...« less