"We had passed through a thicket of wild plum and crab-apple trees," says Mr.Speed, "and stopped to water our horses.

Hardin came up alone.

'Where is Lincoln ?' we inquired.

'Oh,' replied he, 'when I saw him last he had caught two young birds which the wind had blown out of their nests, and he was hunting the nest to put them back.' In a short time Lincoln came up, having found the nest and placed the young birds in it.

The party laughed at him; but he said, 'I could not have slept if I had not restored those little birds to their mother.'" Again, as Dr.Holland narrates, "Lincoln was one day riding by a deep slough or pit in which, to his exceeding pain, he saw a pig struggling, and with such faint efforts that it was evident that he could not extricate himself.