Young Physical Lincoln

Though I think Lincoln had a penchant for working with his brain over physical work, he did much physical work in his youth. As he said he had picked up an axe at eight or nine years old and didn’t put it down until he was twenty-one years old. This is when he left the home of his father and step-mother. He went to work on a flatboat of his own, and one day two men came along and wanted each of their trunks transported down the river. Lincoln had figured a sum in his head for doing this, and when each man threw down a fifty cent piece, Lincoln was very pleased and thought how fair was this. It kind of opened his eyes that nice things do happen on this earth!