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Excerpt from He Knew Lincoln, and Other Billy Brown Stories
Particularly was Lincoln at home with men like the Billy Brown of these pages, men whose native grain had not been obscured by polish and Oil There were many Of them in his time in Illinois, ply ing their trades or professions more or less busily, but never allowing industry to in terfere with opportunities for compau ionship. They were men of shrewdness, humor, usually modest, not over-weight ed with ambition. Their appetite f or talk, for politics, for reports on human exhib its of all sorts, never dulled. Their love of companionship outstripped even their naturally intolerant partisanship. 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.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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Excerpt from He Knew Lincoln, and Other Billy Brown Stories
Particularly was Lincoln at home with men like the Billy Brown of these pages, men whose native grain had not been obscured by polish and Oil There were many Of them in his time in Illinois, ply ing their trades or professions more or less busily, but never allowing industry to in terfere with opportunities for compau ionship. They were men of shrewdness, humor, usually modest, not over-weight ed with ambition. Their appetite f or talk, for politics, for reports on human exhib its of all sorts, never dulled. Their love of companionship outstripped even their naturally intolerant partisanship. 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.
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