How I Twice Eloped: An Indiana Idyll

Excerpt from How I Twice Eloped: An Indiana IdyllNow I know you will stare, and you not knowing anything about it! So I must explain. We have down in our parts a small literary society in connection with our church, and beating about for a theme to write an essay or a poem or a story about, one of our elders, uncle Remus, who heard about it, proposed that we should take up one of abe.lincoln's well-known little stories which he always was fond of telling, and elaborate the same into a regular tale, in several chapters, with a strong, implied moral at the tag end. Now, the one we chose, the illustrious Abra ham Lincoln, himself, had intended to enlarge into a nove lette, but, somehow, never found opportunity to do so.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.