As little was there, also, of the demagogue art of assuming an uncouthness or rusticity of manner and outward habit with the mistaken notion of thus securing particular favor as 'one of the masses.' He chose to appear then, as in all his later life, precisely what he was.

His deportment was unassuming, though without any awkwardness of reserve." Mr.Crane, an old settler of Tazewell County, says he used to see Lincoln when passing through Washington, in that county, on his way to attend court at Metamora; and he remembers him as "dressed in a homespun coat that came below his knees and was out at both elbows." Lincoln's tenderness of heart was displayed in his treatment of animals, toward which he was often performing unusual acts of kindness.

On one occasion, as Mr.Speed relates, Lincoln and the other members of the Springfield bar had been attending court at Christiansburg, and Mr.
Speed was riding with them toward Springfield.

There was quite a party of these lawyers, riding two by two along a country lane.

Lincoln and John J.Hardin brought up the rear of the cavalcade.