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Noah Brooks, a journalist, claimed that "few persons would recognize the hearty, blithesome, genial, and wiry Abraham Lincoln of earlier days" if they were to meet him again during his presidency.

We thought you might like to share it with Summit Daily readers …” To the days that are blithesome and gay. May the joys of the old be the joys of the new Its sorrows fade gently away.