Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Sunday Lecture Before Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa;; April 16, 1905 I saw of him, said another, he had two little birds in his hand and was hunting for their nest in a bunch of crab, apple trees. An hour later Lincoln overtook his comi panions and they laughed at him. You may laugh, gentle men, but I could not have slept well to-night if I had not saved those birds; their cries would have rung in my ears. On another occasion, while riding with some friends, he turned and rode back, got down from his horse and soiled his best suit of clothes while releasing a pig which had in some way become pinned under a rail fence. When his friends rebuked him for his appearance he remarked: I did not want to do it myself, and so I drove by, but the look in that pig's eye seemed to say, 'there goes my last chance.' It haunted me. At another time, seeing a beetle on its back struggling to regain its normal attitude, he gently turned it over to give it another chance. Mercy and justice reigned in his heart, righteousness dominated his soul, fair play was the ruling passion of his nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.