a hard-shell Whig, and having no fear of the great, and wanting no
favor, shrank from allowing him any. He said that the road did not
run any "specials" for Presidents.

"Stop!" interrupted Bob, "did you not furnish a special for
General-President Harrison?" (Died 1841.)

"S'pose we did," answered the superintendent; "well, if you will bring
your father here in that condition, you shall have the best train on
the track!"


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SELF-MADE.

"Self-made or never made," says one of the apologists for Lincoln's
ruggedness of character and outward air; at an early political
meeting, when asked if he were self-made and he answered in the
affirmative, the rough critic remarked: "Then it is a poor job," as if
it were by nature's apprentice. But in 1860, when friends reproached
him for the lack of "Old Hickory" Jackson's sternness, he replied
nobly:

"I am just as God made me, and cannot change."


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