She was too feeble to come to him, and desired him to go to her.

Ascertaining where she lived, Lincoln started at once, accompanied by a boy who acted as pilot.

He found the woman in a wretched hovel in the outskirts of the town, sick and destitute.

He remembered her very well, as she had belonged to the owner of the farm upon which Lincoln was born.

He gave her money to supply her immediate wants, promised her that he would see she did not suffer for the necessaries of life, and when he returned to town hunted up a physician and engaged him to give the old woman all the medical attention that her case demanded." Mr.G.W.Harris, whose first meeting with Lincoln in a log school-house has been previously described in these pages, subsequently became a clerk in Lincoln's law-office at Springfield, and furnishes some excellent reminiscences of that interesting period.