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But before he could get beyond its reach the massive bar tipped over, falling in such way as to strike him in the side of the head, and felling him senseless to the floor. In a moment Furniss and Offut were bending over him with anxious looks on their grimy countenances. "Is he killed?" asked the younger of the twain.
He accordingly equipped his "store," and being himself engaged in other enterprises, he installed Lincoln as manager. Soon he also gave Lincoln a mill to run. Besides all this patronage, Offut went about the region bragging in his extravagant way that his clerk "knew more than any man in the United States," would some day be President, and could now throw or thrash any man in those parts.
In the spring of 1832 a noted chief of the Sacs led a campaign of such importance that it lives in history under the dignified title of "the Black Hawk war." The Indians gathered in numbers so formidable that Governor Reynolds issued a call for volunteers to aid the national forces. Lincoln, left unemployed by the failure of Offut, at once enlisted.
"I'll take this one," said Mires, stooping over the nearest wheel which was half buried in dust and dirt. Then, without any apparent effort, the small sized workman raised the wheel to his shoulder and walked back from the direction whence they had come. "Now see the big gawk lift his!" exclaimed Fret Offut, who had somehow been let into the secret.
This was spoken with such signs and indications as only one in the secret could understand, and young Offut nodded knowingly, as much as to say: "I understand perfectly, and will not fail in my part to gain our ends."
About that time Jack was surprised to find that Fret Offut had found employment in the building, though it was more as a helper than as a regular workman, his chief task being to wheel the scraps of iron and waste material away and to wait upon the boss of the big steam hammer.
Jack was too happy over his prospects to mind the baleful looks of Furniss the next day, or to hear the jibes of Fret Offut. Could he have foreseen the startling result he must have been bound with dismay. The following Monday, when the day's work was done and he was leaving the shop, Mr. Henshaw came along, and slapping him on the shoulder, said: "Let me congratulate you, my lad.
Trade does not seem to have been brisk, for Offut soon increased his venture by renting the Rutledge and Cameron mill, on whose historic dam the flatboat had come to grief. For a while the care of this mill was added to Lincoln's other duties. He made himself generally useful besides, his old implement, the ax, not being entirely discarded.
But she wanted him to do whatever was best for him. "Mr. Offut said he'd pay me fifteen dollars a month," Abe added. That was more money than he had ever earned, thought Sarah. And now that he was over twenty-one, he could keep his wages for himself. "I reckon you'll be leaving soon," she said aloud. "Yes, Ma, I will." Telling her was harder than Abe had expected.
He had another proof of the fact before he got home from Fret Offut, who said: "Feel mighty stuck up, don't yer? But let me tell yer,'twon't do any good." This was the first time he had spoken to Jack since he had begun work in the shops, and our hero made no reply.
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