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Excerpt from Boy Scouts Life of Lincoln Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman. "Tom Lincoln has bought a farm;" that is what all his Kentucky relatives - half-brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles and cousins, were saying to one another. To be sure, Tom was a carpenter, but in those days in Kentucky - it was in 1803 that the farm was bought - people felt rightly that the great business of a man, as in all newly settled countries, was clearing and breaking the land, opening roads, driving out Indians and wild beasts. As Tom was only twenty-three years old and since he was five had been an orphan with no settled home, this buying of a farm was an event in the family. It meant that he was going to settle down; perhaps that he was getting ready to marry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.