When Abraham Lincoln was young he worked in a 1 . As a clerk he proved 2 and efficient. One day a woman came into the store and bought some articles. They added up to two dollars and six and a quarter cents, or the young clerk thought they did. The bill was paid, and the woman was entirely 3 . But the young store-keeper, not feeling quite sure as to 4 , added up the items once more. To his dismay he found that the sum total should have been only two dollars. “I've made her pay 5 too much,” said Abe,disturbed. It was a very small sum , and many clerks would have dismissed it as such. But Abe was too conscientious to forget about the overcharge. “The money must be 6 ,” he decided. This would have been easy enough had the woman lived just around the corner, but, as the young man knew, she lived 7 away. This, however, did not alter the matter. It was night, but he closed and locked the store, and 8 to the home of the customer. Having arrived there, he explained the matter, paid over the 9 , and returned satisfied. This anecdote won him a new name: 10 .