The Lincoln Story Book Part 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lincoln Story Book Part 1, credited to Henry L. Williams, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Lincoln Story Book Part 1 by Henry L. Williams. The Abraham Lincoln Statue at Chicago is accepted as the typical Westerner of the forum, the rostrum, and the tribune, as he stood to be inaugurated under the war-cloud in 1861. But there is another Lincoln as dear to the common people--the Lincoln of happy quotations, the speaker of household words. Instead of the erect, impressive, penetrative platform orator we see a long, gaunt figure, divided between two chairs for comfort, the head bent forward, smiling broadly, the lips curved in laughter, the deep eyes irradiating their caves of wisdom; the story-telling Lincoln, enjoying the enjoyment he gave to others. (from the preface of the book) Part 2 of this book is available at https://archive.org/details/lincoln\_story\_book2\_0902\_librivox.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lincoln Story Book Part 1
• Author credits: Henry L. Williams
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 255
• Listed recording duration: 9:51:38

Catalogue topics

• lincoln
• stories

Opening tracks: first 24 of 255

1. 001 - Preface — 8:23
2. 002 - Lincoln Calendar — 5:55
3. 003 - Childish Rime — 1:06
4. 004 - The Little Hatchet Did It. — 1:24
5. 005 - The Little Hatchet Again Turns Up. — 1:33
6. 006 - Lincoln's Wedding-Song. — 1:03
7. 007 - Risk The Hogs And I Will Risk Myself! — 2:02
8. 008 - The Rest Was Vile. — 1:47
9. 009 - No Heaping Coals Of Fire On That Head. — 1:24
10. 010 - Stumping The Stump-Speaker. — 1:46
11. 011 - Making The Wool, Not Feathers, Fly. — 2:42
12. 012 - Log-Rolling To Save Lives. — 2:57
13. 013 - Lincoln's First Dollar. — 3:42
14. 014 - Conviction Through A Thrashing. — 1:58
15. 015 - Boating On Ground 'A Leetle Damp.' — 2:11
16. 016 - The Initiator Installed. — 3:40
17. 017 - The Horrors For The Third Time! — 2:38
18. 018 - The Whistle That Stopped The Boat. — 0:45
19. 019 - It Is The Deed, Not The Doer. — 4:01
20. 020 - Turn Out Or Be Turned Out. — 0:45
21. 021 - The Best Thing To Take. — 1:05
22. 022 - Drinking And Swallowing Are Two Things. — 2:18
23. 023 - Worsted In A Horse-Trade. — 2:11
24. 024 - How Many Short Breaths? — 1:34

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