Mrs. Crawford, who was very fond of him, would ask, “Well, Abe, what do you want to be now?”
“I’ll be president,” he would declare.
She would laugh at him, and say, “You would make a pretty president with all your tricks and jokes, wouldn’t you?”
“Oh, I’ll study and get ready, then the chance will come,” he would reply.
Truth is the highest thing a man may keep.
—Cervantes.
III. The Young Storekeeper
At the age of twenty-one Abraham Lincoln became a store clerk for a short time. He was then six feet four inches tall and very strong. He could out-run, out-jump, out-wrestle, and out-fight any man in the rough pioneer country where he lived.
While the people respected his great strength, they liked him still more for his honesty in little things.