He thereupon accosted him, and asked if he could write.
He replied, 'Yes, a little.' 'Will you act as clerk of the election to-day ?' said the judge.

'I will try,' returned Abe, 'and do the best I can, if you so request.'" He did try accordingly, and, in the language of the schoolmaster, "performed the duties with great facility, firmness, honesty, and impartiality.

I clerked with him," says Mr.
Graham, "on the same day and at the same polls.

The election books are now in the city of Springfield, where they can be seen and inspected any day." That the foregoing anecdotes bearing on the early life of Abraham Lincoln are approximately correct is borne out by Lincoln himself.

At the urgent request of Hon.