XV Wherein Harry and Abe Ride Up
to Springdale and Visit Kelso’s and
Learn of
the Curious Lonesomeness of Eliphalet Biggs
XVI Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Safely
Passes Two Great Danger Points
and Turns
into the Highway of His Manhood
BOOK THREE
XVII Wherein Young Mr. Lincoln Betrays Ignorance
of Two Highly
Important
Subjects, in Consequence of Which He Begins to Suffer
Serious
Embarrassment
XVIII In Which Mr. Lincoln, Samson and Harry Take
a Long Ride Together
and the
Latter Visit the Flourishing Little City of Chicago
XIX Wherein Is One of the Many Private
Panics Which Followed the
Bursting
of the Bubble of Speculation
XX Which Tells of the Settling
of Abe Lincoln and the Traylors in the
Village
of Springfield and of Samson’s Second Visit to
Chicago
XXI Wherein a Remarkable School of Political
Science Begins Its
Sessions
in the Rear of Joshua Speed’s Store. Also
at Samson’s
Fireside
Honest Abe Talks of the Authority of the Law and the
Right of
Revolution, and Later Brings a Suit against Lionel
Davis
XXII Wherein Abe Lincoln Reveals His Method
of Conducting a Lawsuit in
the Case
of Henry Brimstead et al. vs. Lionel Davis
XXIII Which Presents the Pleasant Comedy of Individualism
in the New
Capital,
and the Courtship of Lincoln and Mary Todd
XXIV Which Describes a Pleasant Holiday and a Pretty Stratagem
XXV Being a Brief Memoir by the Honorable
and Venerable Man Known in
These Pages
as Josiah Traylor, Who Saw the Great Procession of
Events between
Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson and Especially
the Making
and the End of Lincoln
A MAN FOR THE AGES
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
Which describes the journey of Samson Henry Traylor
and his wife and
their two children and their
dog Sambo through the Adirondack
wilderness
in 1831 on their way to the
land of plenty, and especially
their
adventures in bear valley and
no Santa Claus land. Furthermore,
it
describes the soaping of the
Brimsteads and the capture of
the veiled
bear.