I remember, and well I may! that upon one occasion I had, after all absolutely necessary expenses, on a Friday, made shift to have a half-penny in reserve, which I had destined for the purchase of a red herring in the morning, but when I pulled off my clothes at night, so hungry then as to be hardly able to endure life, I found that I had lost my half-penny.

I buried my head under the miserable sheet and rug, and cried like a child.
"If I, under such circumstances, could encounter and overcome this task," he added, "is there, can there be in the world, a youth to find any excuse for its non-performance ?" "I have talked with great men," Lincoln told his fellow-clerk and friend, Greene, according to _McClure's Magazine_, "and I do not see how they differ from others." He made up his mind to put himself before the public, and talked of his plans to his friends.

In order to keep in practice in speaking he walked seven or eight miles to debating clubs.

"Practicing polemics," was what he called the exercise.
He seems now for the first time to have begun to study subjects.

Grammar was what he chose.