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Title: Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Parton, James, 1822-1891
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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n the followingmorning, the debts having been paid in the meantime,and very speedily the married pair and all the goodswhich the widow had possessed, were placed upon awagon, and drawn by four horses, a journey of some dcys,to Thomas Lincolns cabin in Indiana. These goods wereof considerable value. There was a bureau which hadcost forty dollars, and which Thomas considered sinfullymagnificent, and urged her to sell it. But she was noLincoln and refused to do this. There was a table, a setof chairs, a large clothes chest, some cooking utensils,knives and forks, bedding, and other articles essential tocivilized living. Abraham Lincoln never forgot the wonder and delightwith which he beheld the arrival tyid unpacking of thiswagon-load of unimagined treasure. Neither he nor hissister had ever heard of such things. The new mother,on her part, was wofully disappointed on seeing thewretched cabin in which she was to pass her days; for itseems that Thomas Lincoln had drawn upon his imagina- c
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SALLY BUSH. 25 fcion in describing his abode ; and, indeed, the rude hovelwas a great advance upon the half-inclosed wigwam inwhich he had lived during the first years residence in thewilderness. But Sally Bush, unlettered as she was, had in her someof the best qualities of a civilized being. She was a natu-ral enemy of chaos and all disorder. She was a womanof high principle, genuine intelligence, and good sense.She, therefore, accepted the dismal lot to which ThomasLincoln had brought her, and at once set about makingthe best of it. She made her idle husband put a floor to the cabin ;then windows and doors, welcome appendages in that coldmonth of December. She made up warm beds for thechildren, now five in number by the addition of her three.The little Lincolns, even in that wintry season, were halfnaked, and she clothed them from fabrics saved for herown wardrobe. They had never been used to cleanliness;she washed them, and taught them how to wash them-selves. They had been treated

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