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He was reliable and honest, and had in 1828 been employed, when his father lived in Indiana, by a Mr. Gentry, to accompany his son to New Orleans, with a flat-boat of produce, which he sold successfully. It is not my object to dwell on the early life of Abraham Lincoln.
Then three loud reports, evidently American, were heard, and the little crowd, convinced that their side had won, gave three hearty cheers for Perry. About two days afterwards, Johnson and a man named Rumidge picked up a large flat-boat that had been built by General Jessup for the conveyance of troops, and then abandoned.
"You needn't be in a hurry," said I, "for I am not going off until my friend comes back. You gave him a good long walk to the other end of the island." "Indeed!" said Mr. Chipperton. "How was that?" Then I told him all about it. "Do you think that the flat-boat is likely to be there yet?" he asked.
The wooden model is there; for, so pleased was Lincoln with the success that he thought seriously of becoming an inventor, and his first design was the patent granted to him in 1849, the idea for which grew out of this successful floating of Offutt's flat-boat over the river snags at New Salem nineteen years before. Once again he visited New Orleans, returning home, as before, by steamboat.
"Who'd a thought it was Zeb! Where has he come from? He beats all niggers in Kentuck for adventures and walloping lies." A few minutes later the negro was received upon the flat-boat. It is scarcely necessary to say that his friends all experienced unfeigned joy at his return.
If I ever get a chance, some day, to hit that thing" and he flung his long arm toward the dreadful auction block "I'll hit it hard." Soon after he returned from his flat-boat trip to New Orleans he had an opportunity to show that he could not and would not stand what is termed "foul play." The same Mr.
An Art Union gave you, once a year, a very cheap engraving. But it gave the same engraving to everybody. So, in every house you went to, for one year, you saw the same men dancing on a flat-boat. Then, a year after, you saw Queen Mary signing Lady Jane Grey's death-warrant. She kept signing it all the time. You might make seventeen visits in an afternoon.
"I'm not so sure. How are we going to get over?" "Swim it, unless no, I guess we won't swim not, at least, if there's a pair of oars in that flat-boat I see yonder. Funny we didn't stumble over it when we came down." "Maybe it wasn't here then. Maybe the man came over in it. We better not stand here in the open. We don't know what minute he might be back."
I cannot help feeling that the proper time for departure had come; but this destroys the story and robs the comandante of his reputation for chivalry. As Miss Palett's gondola neared the grain-ship, Salemina, it seems, spied the commanding officer pacing the deck. "See," she said to her companion, "there is a gang-plank from the side of the ship to that small flat-boat.
When our flat-boat touched the Kentucky bank of the river, her ninety passengers jumped joyfully ashore, and with noisy hilarity scattered along the beach. The morning was beautiful. The clear sunlight glittered upon the river and lighted up the forest with golden radiance. The sky was blue, and the air cool and bracing. The land was high, well wooded, and fertile.
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