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The Lincoln Story Book

by Henry L. Williams

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Turn Out or Be Turned Out

Superintendent Tinker, of the W. U. T., says he heard Secretary Seward say to President Lincoln:

“Mr. President, I hear that you turned out for a colored woman on a muddy crossing the other day?”

“Did you?” returned the other laughingly. “Well, I don’t remember it; but I always make it a rule, if people do not turn out for me, I will for them. If I didn’t, there would be a collision.”

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