Another time he [Abraham Lincoln] told of John Moore, onetime State Treasurer of Illinois, who confessed that on one occasion in the early days he came to Bloomington on Saturday to get supplies, and having purchased them, filled up with liquor and started home. He drove a cart drawn by two red steers. Passing through a grove, the cart struck a tree stump and the steers broke loose and ran away. Moore, who had fallen asleep, did not even waken, but slept on until morning. Opening his eyes finally, he looked about in bewilderment. “If my name is John Moore,” he exclaimed, “I’ve lost a pair of steers; if it is not John Moore, I’ve found a cart.”
Source:
Thomas, Benjamin Platt, and Michael Burlingame. “Lincoln’s Humor.” "Lincolns Humor" and Other Essays. University of Illinois Press, 2002. 8. Print.
Original Source Listed:
Isaac N. Phillips, ed., Abraham Lincoln by Some Men Who Knew Him (Bloomington: Pantograph Printing, 1910), 99-100.
Further Reading:
John Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore_(Illinois)
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