Whatever may come, you can find no better friends than these, and of this you may be sure, no child of the prairies will ever go about with a hand organ and a monkey.

Our friend, Honest Abe, is one of the few rich men in this neighborhood.
Among his assets are Kirkham's Grammar, _The Pilgrim's Progress_, the Lives of Washington and Henry Clay, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Othello's Speech to the Senate, Marc Antony's address and a part of Webster's reply to Hayne.

A man came along the other day and sold him a barrel of rubbish for two bits.

In it he found a volume of Blackstone's _Commentaries_.

Old Blackstone challenged him to a wrestle and Abe has grappled with him.