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Title: Abraham Lincoln before 1860
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Rutledge, Ann, d. 1835
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: Friends of The Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc.

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think he meantwhat he said; but I did not want to marryhim much as I liked his common-sense,his absence of airs and his great hon-esty, so I invented a story. I told him I was engaged to a youngman in Kentucky, but he did not give upfor this, though it cooled his ardor a littlefor a time. Finally he told my father he bu?? ssnsr Jp5£? to%eTwain*s home, and he never got over it. My fatherlectured me severely for my conduct. Hewanted me to marry Lincoln and he af-terwards told me what a little dunce I dmade of myself, but my mother took mypart, for she believed love was a thmg,him for money or position. Mrs. Boyce tells of an interesting Inci-dent that occurred at a party one nightwhere a dozen young folks were trying totell their fortunes with the aid of a com- ,man doorkey and a Bible. I
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Mr. Lincoln was always interested uisuch things, she said, and he at onerwanted to know all about the game, st6somebody explained It. It was this: Thkey was placed on a verse of the openBible, and when questions were aske_the key was supposed to turn by super-^natural power. I remember Lincoln ask-ed, Will Susie marry a man whose namebegins with L? and the key did not move.Then he asked, Wrill she marry a manwhose name begins with B? and the keywhirled. I have, nftgj thought that_».strangething. I wasThen going- with ayoung man named Brooks, and did notthen dreeam of Mr. Boyce, who becamemy husband. A strange illustration of the Emerson-ian saying that the gods come in lowguises—Odin in a hut, Jesus in a manger-is seen in Mrs. Boyces estimate of thegreat man whose love she had half a cen-tury ago. Speaking of his mental quali-ties she said: He was too changeableand easily influenced by other men, andhe lacked stability. He did not have the educationought to have had to be president

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