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Excerpt from The Education of Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln himself made many political speeches; and he essayed several times, with varying success, to deliver popular lectures. Herndon says that on one occasion, when Lincoln was advertised to speak at Springfield, there were but two persons in his audience.42 Angle has shown this story to be apocryphal; but we can forgive Herndon his error, because it serves to recall a similar in eident in the career of Eli Perkins. On one occasion, as that humorist relates, he ploughed through a raging blizzard to a hall where he was to lecture, only to find that but one other man had ventured out. He said: My friend, to show my appreciation for your coming to hear me on such a night, I'm going to give my lecture in full, word for word, just as I would have given it if the hall had been filled with people. Well, all right, said his lone auditor; but I wish you would speak as rapidly as possible; I'm the janitor, and I'm anxious to get home. 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.
