Encounters
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As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys. Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek. A band of twenty moose had crossed over from the land of streams and timber, and chief among them was a great bull. He was in a savage temper, and, standing over six feet from the ground, was as formidable an antagonist as even Buck could desire. Back and forth the bull tossed his great palmated antlers, branching to fourteen points and embracing seven feet within the tips. His small eyes burned with a vicious and bitter light, while he roared with fury at sight of Buck.
Source: The Call of the Wild ▫𓂃
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Others confirmed Speed’s suggestion that Mary Todd took the initiative in the courtship. In 1875, Orville H. Browning told an interviewer: “I always thought then and ever since that in her affair with Mr Lincoln, Mary Todd did most of the courting.” Browning added that “Miss Todd was thoroughly in earnest [in] her endeavors to get Mr. Lincoln” and stated flatly that there “is no doubt of her exceeding anxiety to marry him.” Browning reported that in “those times I was at Mr. Edwards’ a great deal, and Miss Todd used to sit down with me, and talk to me sometimes till midnight, about this affair of hers with Mr. Lincoln.” William Butler’s sister-in-law, Sarah Rickard, thought that Mary Todd “certainly made most of the plans and did the courting” and “would have him [Lincoln], whether or no.” Rickard alleged that “it was the talk of Springfield that Mary Todd would marry him in spite of himself.” Herndon believed that “Miss Todd wanted L. terribly and worked, played her cards, through Mrs. [Simeon] Francis’s hands.” In pursuing her quarry, “she read much & committed much to memory to make herself agreeable,” according to Mrs. Benjamin S. Edwards.
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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