Lincoln Story Book, The

<h3>HOW GET HIM OUT?</h3> <p>During the avalanche of plans to conduct the suppression of the rebellion, a genius proposed what afterward seemed a forecast for Sherman's march to the sea. But at the time, Lincoln saw in it merely a desperate venture which would detail a rescue-party much more important.</p> <p>"That reminds me," he said, with his whimsical smile, "of a cooper out my way, new at the trade and much annoyed by the head falling in as he was hooping in the staves around it. But the bright idea occurred to him to put his boy in to hold up the cover. Only when the job was completed by this inner support, the new problem rose: how to get the boy out?</p> <p>"Your plan is feasible, sir; but how are you to get the boy out?"</p> <p>(The story was originally credited to a Chinese cooper, to whom modern caskmaking was a mystery.) <br/> <br/> <br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />