ROM a log cabin, out of the wilderness, comes-ABRAHAM LINCOLN!Frontiersmen are often poor pickers of fertile soil. They seek not agricultural advantages, but a temporary resting-place in their semi-nomadic existence. Sinking Spring Farm-a farm in name only-is one of the bleakest spots of all "the dark and bloody ground" of Kentucky.It is no venturesome author who, in search of atmosphere, selects this locality, but Thomas, husband of Nancy Lincoln, illiterate but in a rustic way picturesque. Compactly built, as becomes a sturdy pioneer, is this round-faced, swarthy-complexioned woodsman. Coarse black hair frames his genial countenance. By nature he is 'easy-going,' slow of comprehension, honest. He "abides by the law," to the point, even, of great personal inconvenience-a true follower of the pioneer's code. Firm in his belief that books have been invented by the Devil to seduce men from manly labors, he has no book-learning. He is a 'carpenter of sorts,' though he shirks this trade when hunting is to be had.On a frosty Sunday morning Thomas calls the "granny woman," and on that day Nancy gives birth to her second child, Abraham. "I rikkilect I run all the way, over two miles," says the enthusiastic cousin, Dennis Hanks, "to see Nancy Hanks's boy baby. 'Twas common for connections to gather in them days to see new babies. I held the wee one a minute. I was ten years old, and it tickled me to hold the pulpy, red little Lincoln!"A definite picture of Nancy Hanks Lincoln is obscure. But we are told diat she is patient, kind, a good wife and mother, "uncommonly intelligent though unlettered." = When Abe-as he is familiarly called-is four, the family moves to a more fertile farm on Knob Creek, eight miles away. From here the boy and his sister Sarah commence to "trudge their way" to school. The only book used by the itinerant school-teacher is a speller. Abe likes to attend this general meeting-house on the Sabbath, too, for then the pioneers gather to listen to some travelling preacher's exhortations, his weird tales of hell fire, eternal damnation, and a wrathful God who metes out punishments. As soon as he