Introduction: "I saw him this morning about 8:30" -- "My good friend is gone" -- "I have heard much of this blessed good woman" -- "Injuns!" -- "Purty as a pitcher." -- "Nancy's got a boy baby." -- "It was a wild region." -- "Constantly handling that most useful instrument." -- "I am going away from you, Abraham" -- "Here's your new mammy" -- "Land o'Goshen, that boy air a' growin'" -- "A real eddication" -- "Mighty darned good lies" -- "Somethin' peculiarsome" -- "Chronicles of Reuben" -- "Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence?" -- "I can see the quivering and shining of that half-dollar yet" -- "River man" -- "Snowbirds" -- "I found him no green horn" -- "I'll hit it hard" -- "A kind of driftwood" -- "The best feller that ever broke into this settlement" -- "Something that was knotty" -- "I am young and unknown" -- "They surely thought it was a dream" -- "Captain Abraham Lincoln's Company of the First Regiment of the Brigade of Volunteers" -- "Charges upon the wild onions...bloody struggles with the mosquitoes" -- "The only time I ever have been beaten" -- "The national debt" -- "I loved the woman dearly and sacredly" -- "Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" -- "Did you vote for me?"