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"She is skilled in
the art of producing astonishment."
"She must have heard of that handsome boy at the tavern and got in a
hurry to come home," said the Doctor.
"Ann Rutledge says that he is a right purty boy," the girl laughed as she
brushed her curls aside.
She turned to Samson Traylor and asked wistfully, "Do you suppose he
would play with me?"


CHAPTER IV
WHICH PRESENTS OTHER LOG CABIN FOLK AND THE FIRST STEPS IN THE MAKING OF
A NEW HOME AND CERTAIN CAPACITIES AND INCAPACITIES OF ABE.

Next morning at daylight two parties went out in the woods to cut timber
for the home of the newcomers. In one party were Harry Needles carrying
two axes and a well filled luncheon pail; Samson with a saw in his hand
and the boy Joe on his back; Abe with saw and axe and a small jug of root
beer and a book tied in a big red handkerchief and slung around his neck.
When they reached the woods Abe cut a pole for the small boy and carried
him on his shoulder to the creek and said:
"Now you sit down here and keep order in this little frog city.


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