Benefits Forgot - A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Benefits Forgot, by Honoré Willsie This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love Author: Honoré Willsie Illustrator: Charles E. Cartwright Release Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18951] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BENEFITS FORGOT *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "COME HERE AND SIT DOWN AND WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR MOTHER!"—Page 74. BENEFITS FORGOT A STORY OF LINCOLN AND MOTHER LOVE BY HONORÉ WILLSIE AUTHOR OF "STILL JIM," "LYDIA OF THE PINES," ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES E. CARTWRIGHT PUBLISHERS FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1917, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages Contents I THE DONATION PARTY 1 II THE CIRCUIT RIDER 24 III WAR 41 IV MR. LINCOLN 63 1 I THE DONATION PARTY Brother Meaker rose from his pew and looked at Jason appraisingly. "I don't know, brethren," he said. "Of course, he's a growing boy. Just turned twelve, didn't you say, ma'am?" Jason's mother nodded faintly without looking up, and Brother Meaker went on.