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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 9. (search)
ied through cleaning up the dinner dishes and stepped over to neighbor S .... to see if his wife Peggy was as well as mout be expected, and hear what they called the baby. Well, when I got there andn out that Shields is a Democrat, I never will -- Jefferson! Jefferson! What do you want, Peggy? Do get through your everlasting clatter some time, and bring me a gourd of water; the child'fellow, after all, once you get at the foundation of him. I walked into the house, and, Why, Peggy, says I, declare we like to forgot you altogether. Oh, yes, says she, when a body can't help he calves, and wring the contrary ones' tails for 'em, and no thanks to nobody. Good evening, Peggy, says I, and so I sloped, for I seed she was mad at me for making Jeff neglect her so long. ; and yet it's pretty plain if some change for the better is not made, it's not long that either Peggy or I or any of us will have a cow left to milk, or calf's tail to wring. Yours truly, Re