clumsy partner had carried himself.

"He kept his word. He did dance the worst way!"


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"THE STATUTE FIXES ALL THAT!"

Even Lincoln's marriage was to be accompanied by a diversion of that
merry imp of incongruity always with him--as Shakespeare's most
stately heroes are attended by a comic servant. He married Miss
Mary Todd, of Kentucky, at Springfield, at the age of thirty-three.
It was the first wedding performed with all the ceremonial of the
Episcopalian sect. This was to the awe of the Honorable Judge Tom C.
Brown, an old man, and friend and patron of our Abraham. He watched
the ecclesiastical functionary to the point of Lincoln's placing the
ring on his bride's finger, when the irate old stager exclaimed at
the formula: "With this ring I thee endow with all my goods," etc.

"Grace to Goshen! Lincoln, the statute fixes all that!"


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HE DID NOT KNOW HIS OWN HOUSE.

In 1842 Abraham Lincoln married Miss Mary Todd, a Kentucky lady, at