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 LINCOLN AS AN ADVOCATE for his adversary. This style of argument was, of course very captivating and con vincing as it showed to the jury his perfect fairness. He was willing to concede to his opponent everything that justly belonged to him, and if he could not do that, and

Mr. Lincoln rode up to the tavern, where he usually put up, a day or two after the other lawyers had arrived, and on being pleasantly rallied by the landlord for his tardiness, responded, 'using an apt illustra tion, 'Well, uncle, you know as the drove

Photo from ambrotype taken at Urban a III., in the fall of 1857.

still win the case, he would not take it in the first place. "In those days, before railroads ran to nearly every town as they do now, attor neys were accustomed to attend all the courts in the circuit, and to accompany each other on horseback. On one occasion

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of cattle are driven along the largest animals always fall behind.' When it is remem bered that Mr. Lincoln was very tall, the humor of his remark can be appreciated. "It was about this time, also, but on another journey of a similar character, that he was riding alone and came across a pig