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The first thing that struck anyone about Lincon
was his extraordinary appearance, He always dressed
in black with a big black tie, very often untied, or
in the wrong place. His clothes looked as if they
had been made to fit some one else, and have never
been new. His feet were enormous’, so were his
hands, often covered on state occasions white kid
gloves. In cold weather he used to wear a large gray
shawl instead of an over-coat one day some friends
were discussing Lincon and Douglas and comparing
their heights. When Lincon came into the room
some one asked him, “How long ought a man’s legs
to be?” Long enough to reach from his body to the
ground said Lincon coolly.
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