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38423	Conwell, Russell H.	Why Lincoln Laughed			.txt	text/plain	25243	1566	83	I first met Lincoln at the White House during the Civil War. To-day it One day when I was at the White House in conversation with Lincoln a man As we sat there Lincoln opened Artemus Ward's book and read several things "Because," said Mr. Lincoln, "Old Grimes is dead, that good old man!" The two stories long accredited to Ward at which Mr. Lincoln laughed most Ward once stated that Lincoln told him that he was an expert at raising Lincoln said to me that day, "One glimpse of Ward would make a culprit "The old man came to the door several days after that and said, 'Marse "Good for you, old man!" sed I; "giv that air a conspickius place in the Lincoln said that much of Ward's humor was of the educational sort. President's death on April 15, 1865, said that Abraham Lincoln's humorous	./cache/38423.txt	./txt/38423.txt