ABRAHAM LINCOLN
A PLAY
Lend eye and ear, my children dear;
I, History, will now bring near
The one whose wisdom, great and true,
Did save this land beloved by you.
Here now the backwoods boy behold,
Unlettered, rough, but for truth ever bold.
Scene I
Place,—Interior of a log house at Pigeon Creek, Indiana.
Time,—About 1820.
Abraham Lincoln, his Stepmother, and Matilda, his stepsister. (Lincoln is stretched on the floor, working out a problem on a big wooden shovel with a bit of charcoal. At the same time he is eating his breakfast of corncake. His stepmother and sister are cleaning off the table.
Matilda,—Mother, did you hear about the spelling match at the school house?
Mother,—No, did the children do well?
Matilda,—Why, you see, the class was
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