...made grave while the service was held. When Lincoln was a boy he wrote these lines in his arithmetic : Abraham Lincoln His hand and pen ; He will be good, But God knows when. In 1831 he went to New Orleans. While there he saw some slaves cruelly beaten and maltreated, and perhaps...

...of a copybook (not the scrap-book spoken of), in which he wrote original copies. Here is one : — " Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen ; He will be good, but God knows when." In the same book he wrote the following : — " Time ! what an empty vapour 'tis ! And days, how swift...

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...are in a bushel, the facetious young student had scrawled these four lines of schoolboy doggerel : " Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good, But God knows when." On another page were found, in his own hand, a few lines which it is also said he composed. Nothing...

...are in a bushel, the facetious young student had scrawled these four lines of schoolboy doggerel : "Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen, He will be good, But God knows when." On another page were found, in his own hand, a few lines which it is also said he composed. Nothing...

...him to say what was right and fair. There is humor in the lines which he wrote in his arithmetic : " Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen ; He will be good, But God knows when."(4) After a few weeks with Dorsey, two years went by before the settlers felt able to employ...

...seventy years ago, Lincoln, a school-boy of fourteen, wrote the following characteristic lines : • "Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen; He will be good, but God knows when." If by good he meant pious, the prophecy was never fulfilled. But a short time before he was elected...

...books, but even they were not too precious to be defaced. In his arithmetic were found these lines : " Abraham Lincoln, His hand and pen ; He -will be good — But God knows when." Dorsey's school continued only a few weeks, and there was no other for two years. In the meantime Abe...

...particular care when he was reading not to disturb him. We would just let him read on and on till he quit of his own accord." The boy kept a sort of shingle...knows When. God did know when ; and that boy, all unconsciously, was working toward the day when his hand and pen were to do more for humanity than any...

...scrap-book ; he kept a paper scrap-book, too. Into these he would put whatever he cared to keep—poetry, history, funny sayings, fine passages. He had a scrap-book...god knows When. God did know when; and that boy, all unconsciously, was working toward the day when his hand and pen were to do more for humanity than any...