... to tend store; the gang of ruffians in New Salem; Jack Armstrong and "Tall Abe."—The year after young Lincoln came of age he hired out to tend a grocery and variety store in New Salem, Illinois.[8] There was a gang of young ruffians in that neighborhood who made it a point to pick a fight with every stranger. Sometimes they mauled him black and blue; sometimes they amused themselves with nailing him up in a ... — The Beginner's American History • D. H. Montgomery
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