One day, an old friend of Abraham Lincoln’s stopped by the White House. As he was ushered to the President’s office, he passed an obnoxious politician who was just leaving.
When he asked Lincoln who the man was, Lincoln confided,
He’s the biggest liar in Washington. You can’t believe a word he says. He reminds me of an old fisherman I used to know who got such a reputation for stretching the truth that he bought a pair of scales and insisted on weighing every fish in the presence of witnesses. One day a baby was born next door, and the doctor borrowed the scales to weigh the newborn. It weighed forty-seven pounds. [1]
This was another Lincoln tale from the archives of Abraham Lincoln, Storyteller.
Mac
🤠 Want to read a never-before-published Davy Crockett tale about a frontier spelling contest? A Shakespearean actor shared it a letter to President Abraham Lincoln. Humor, history, and a forgotten alphabet quirk collide in one of the strangest gems found tucked inside the Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. 👉 Read the full tale here.
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