Abraham Lincoln

Tom Lincoln!

It's a comin'

- Boy or gal?

- 'T aint fur enough along yit fer a tag.

- How's Nancy standin' it?

- She's a-prayin'

It's a boy?

It's as long as an eel!

Shucks, he'never

amount to nothin' nohow!

Is he purty?

Homely as a mud fence!

What do you 'low

to call him, Aunty?

Abraham.

There he is. Ugliest, laziest,

smartest man in New Salem.

- Ain't yuh, Abe?

- I don't mind my face, I'm behind it.

It's the people

in front that get jarred.

Whip any man in shoo

leather I At least, I hope he can.

Offut does the braggin'

I do the runnin'

You better dust off

them shoes then, stranger,

'cause you ain't here for long.

Well, I was aimin'

to settle here awhile.

- This ain't no peaceable town.

- Well, I'm a peaceable man.

Wait till

Jack Armstrong gets hold o' yuh.

He'll throw yuh out

that door like yuh was a sack o' meal!

- Big fellow?

- No bigger'n you,

but he's champeen o' this country

he ain' never been licked.

And when he sees you...

Folks can't even spit

without his sayso.

Chuck me outa that door, you say?

Like a sack o' meal.

Well, that's a pretty long

chuck for a peaceful man.

Whar be he?

Now, Armstrong,

cain't you leave us be?

Yuh just busted up

old man Simpson's place

and scattered

his new place all over the county.

Man, don't you ever rest?

Whare be he?

That yellow-livered baboon from Indianny!

I come from Indianny,

but not that part.

Well, get down!

Let's see what bones

I wants to crack first!

Get a good hold, Jack!

Come on,

an' get yer neck broke!

This is the neatest

wrestle you've ever had.

Go to him, Champ!

- Get 'in, Jack!

- Abraham Lincoln!

- Let's get 'im, Abe come on!

- Get 'in, Jack!

- Get 'im, Jack!

- Atta boy, Abe!

I'll bet yuh ten dollars,

Offut, on the Champeen!

- Watch 'im, boy!

- Git 'im!

- Watch 'im, boy!

- Come on, git 'im!

- Come on, git 'im!

- Git 'im!

Watch 'im, boy!

Come on, git 'im!

Now, come on, all o' you.

I'm the big tuck of thisn lick!

Yuh are, eh?

Hold on, boys!

He throwed me fair.

What's your name?

Lincoln,...

Abraham Lincoln.

Well, we're goin' to make yuh one of us.

Come on, boys, I'll set 'em up!

It's about time you set 'em up.

Let's have some o'

that rattlesnake bite.

He said he was a peaceful man.

He meant peaceful like a wildcat!

Yeh, that's what he thought.

Looks like good corn liquor.

That is corn liquor.

Come on, Abe. Where's yours?

No, I don't care much for it.

Come on, have a drink, Abe.

Well, I'll drink

if you'll take it like I do.

How's that?

Lift up the barrel,

and drink it outa the bung.

Well, I'll show you boys.

Maybe can, maybe can't.

Try it, anyway.

Whew!

He's the strongest man in Salem!

I told you he was the strongest man.

I've seen him lift

500 pounds in each hand.

- Ain't yuh drinkin?

- No.

- Teetotal?

- No.

Reformer?

No, I don't

regulate nobody's drinkin'

just my own.

I've seen him lift a thousand...

- In this sense,-

- the term "law" -

- includes any edict,-

- decree, order,-

- ordinance,-

- statute, resolutin,-

rule, etcetera. -

Uff!, etcetera...

Well, my old Daddy

taught me how to work,

but he never

taught me how to like it.

I reckon I better

keep on with the lesson.

I'd rather keep on

with something else.

You made a bad bargain

making me the professor.

Well he told me about that too.

He said:

"When you make a bad bargain,

hug it all the tighter. "

But he didn't mean

this kind of a bargain.

Well, don't you like it,

Ann, when I hold you tight?

I guess every girl sorta likes that...

Now, Abe, what is law?

Well, professor, law is a rule

of human conduct governing

Whoa!

Abe, I'ain't payin' you no forty

cents a day to spark a pretty gal!

Well, Uncle Jimmie,

I don't charge nothing extra for it

just throw it in.

I'm expectin'

a sight of rails cut of you.

He's the best

rail-splitter in the country.

He'll be more than a rail-splitter.

How old are you, Uncle Jimmie?

Oh nearin' forty.

I'll get you out forty

more rails than you expected.

Giddap! Maybe you'd better

make it nearin' seventy!

Now, Abe,

your professor needs a seat

where's there's more law

and less temptatin.

Oh, Abe! Ohhh!

Ohhhh!

- Are you all right, Anne?

- I think so.

- Are you hurt?

- My legs are still on me.

Scared me worse than it did you.

Did it, Abe?

You know, Anne, if anything happened

to you, I don't think I could live.

Funny, Abe, I feel the same about you.

You taught me how to love.

Have I taught you to like it?

In the gloaming, oh, my darling,-

When the lights are dim and low,-

And the quiet shadows falling. -

Softly come and softly go. -

It's awful nice this time of day.

Yes, Abe.

Can I tell you

a sort of a story, Anne?

Why of course, Abe.

Well, there was

a town in lllinois called...

called...

- New Salem?

- Yeh, that's it.

And in that town lived

the prettiest girl in the worid.

What was her name?

Anne Rutledge.

Oh, Abe...

What I'd like

to find out about that girl is,

she ever take a little time off

to think about gettin' married?

Well, maybe.

'Cause there's an Abe Lincoln

hanging around that's a pretty good catch.

What's he like?

Oh, he's a big merchant,

owner of three stores all bankrupt.

Well, is he handsome?

His pa said that Abe

had been cut out with an axe.

Politician too, I hear.

Yes, he's got less property

and owes more debts

than anybody

ever running for the legislature.

Oh, Abe, you'll do all

right when you get started.

There's something I'd like to start

right now if I thought I could finish it.

You know, Anne, I...

I've always done a lot of dreamin'

and lately it seems when I dream,

your face gets mixed up in it.

Does it really, Abe?

Tell me about the mixin'

I feel as though I'm going to be

seeing your face till the day I die.

'Course I know that would be pretty hard

for you to have to look at my face that long.

Everybody to their own opinin

Meaning?

I think...

it's the dearest, kindest,

most beautiful face in the whole worid!

Oh, Anne...

Anne...

I know

that's just flattery but I love it.

You know

I feel like little Jimmie Watkins,

he got a hunk of gingerbread

the other day and says:

"I guess there's nobody

likes ginger bread like I does and

gets so little of it".

Oh, Abe!

Anne, will you...

will you marry me?

I mean, of course when I...

when I...

get out of debt and can support you?

Well, you know, Abe,

I've intended to for a long while

that is, of course, if you asked me.

You... you mean?

Yes, Abe, you've got your gingerbread.

Oh, Anne!

Will you think of me and love me-

As you did once long ago?-

How is she, Doctor?

Pretty bad.

She's been asking for you, Abe.

I came as soon as I could.

I had the fever pretty bad myself.

I've got to tell you the truth, Abe,

It's hopeless...

perhaps by tomorrow...

no longer.

I'm so glad you came, Abe.

Are you all right now?

Now, don't bother about me, dear.

I'm all right now.

I know the truth, dear.

It's good-bye.

No, no, Anne dear,

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