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it would do no harm to take a few boards." Judge Lindsay dis- 

 charged the boy, and while before that contractor had been very 

 urgent in saying that the judge should punish this boy and mete 

 out official justice to him for the trouble he had made, after the 

 boy was discharged the contractor approved the course the judge 

 had taken. The judge suggested to him that the demands of 



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nature had been complied with, that there was nothing vicious 

 about this boy, that the boy desired to live in the open and 

 that it was far better to cater to that boy's desires and find some 

 way of bringing him up right than to send him to prison. 



It seems to me this explanation was directly in line with the 

 great thought which Lincoln expressed in one of his letters to 

 Stanton when he wrote concerning a boy who had been sleeping 



