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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, February 12, 1913, Image 9

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THE LIBERATOR
Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12,
1809, Died April 15, 1865.
Written for The Day Book by
Berton Braley.
If those kind eyes of his could
fall
Upon the mills where children
toil
For wages pitifully small,
That Greed may live upon the
spoil
Heaped up by tender childish
hands,
And won by childish woe and
Would lie not strike away their
bands
And leave them free to play
again.
If that great-hearted Lincoln
knew
The children's want and weari
ness, How he would slash the fetters
through
That keep them in their dull
duress.
How he would scan their faces
gray,
Their eyes, so dull with too
much care,
And send them forth to romp and
play
In sunshine and the open air.
His pen-stroke ended slavery,
And if among us now he came,
Would he not set these bond
slaves free
To heap their blessings on his
He was the happy father of a
very pretty and bright little girl
of twelve. "'Dad," she said to him
one evening, while he was read
ing the paper, "every morning
when I am going to school the
boys catch hold of me and kiss
me." "But, Ethel," he said, "why
don't you run a, way from them?"
"Well, dad, if I did, perhaps they
wouldn't chase me." He went on
reading.
o o
An elephant is possessed of
such a delicate sense of smell that
it can scent a human being at a
distance of 1,000 yards.

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