Abe Passing Counterfeit Money.
One day a poor woman ran into Uncle Abe's law office in great fright exclaiming:—
"Oh, Mr. Lincoln, my boy has swallowed a penny!"
"Was it a counterfeit," coolly asked Mr. Lincoln.
"No, certainly not," replied the woman, somewhat indignantly.
"Oh! well, then it will pass, of course," said Uncle Abe.
It is hardly necessary to add that the anxious mother went home comforted and that the boy who "swallowed the penny," at the last Presidentia-election voted for "Honest Old Abe."