Identifier: reallincolnportr01weik (find matches)
Title: The real Lincoln : a portrait
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Weik, Jesse William, 1857-1930
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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WHAT MARY OWENS SAID 69 he riding in, never looking back to see how I got along.W^hen I rode up behind him I remarked: *You are a nicefellow! I suppose you did not care whether my neck wasbroken or not. He laughingly replied (by way of compli-ment, I suppose) that he knew I was plenty smart to takecare of myself. Now Lincoln doubtless thought he was paying MissOwens a delicate compliment when he credited her withspunk and judgment enough to look out for herself;but evidently the latter, whose notions of etiquette andpropriety came from the refined associations of a wealthyKentucky home, was not inclined to view his inattentionin such a generous and forbearing light. And yet here iswhat she said of him in a letter to Herndon after Lincolnsdeath: In many things Mr. Lincoln was sensitive to afault. He told me this incident: He was crossing a prairieone day and saw before him a hog mired down, to use hisown language. He was rather fixed up* and resolved thathe would pass on without lookin

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