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Place,—Interior of a log house at Pigeon Creek, Indiana.

Time,—About 1820.

,, and , his stepsister. (Lincoln is stretched on the floor, working out a problem on a big wooden shovel with a bit of charcoal. At the same time he is eating his breakfast of corncake. His stepmother and sister are cleaning off the table.

,—Mother, did you hear about the spelling match at the school house?

,—No, did the children do well?

,—Why, you see, the class was 55