asked to be seated, and, without changing his position in the least,
Mr. Lincoln entered into conversation with his visitor.

While the two men were talking, Mrs. Lincoln entered the room. She
was, of course, greatly embarrassed at Mr. Lincoln's offhand manner
of entertaining his caller, and, stepping up behind her husband, she
grasped him by the hair and twitched his head about, at the same time
looking at him reprovingly.

Mr. Lincoln apparently did not notice the rebuke. He simply looked up
at his wife, then across to the judge, and, without rising, said:

"Little Mary, allow me to introduce you to my friend, Judge
So-and-so."

It will be remembered that Mrs. Lincoln's maiden name was Mary Todd,
and that she was very short in stature.--_Leslie's Monthly._


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THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT.

The contrast between the statures of the Lincolns, man and wife, was
palpable, but this hardly substantiates the story of the President
appearing with his wife on the White House porch in response to a
serenade, and his saying:

"Here I am, and here is Mrs. Lincoln. That's the long and short of