Category: Miscellaneous Jokes
 

      Lincoln was, naturally enough, much surprised one day, when a man of rather forbidding countenance drew a revolver and thrust the weapon almost into his face. In such circumstances "Abe" at once concluded that any attempt at debate or argument was a waste of time and words.
      
      "What seems to be the matter?" inquired Lincoln with all the calmness and selfpossession he could muster.
      
      "Well," replied the stranger, who did not appear at all excited, "some years ago I swore an oath that if I ever came across an uglier man than myself I'd shoot him on the spot."
      
      A feeling of relief evidently took possession of Lincoln at this rejoinder, as the expression upon his countenance lost all suggestion of anxiety.
      
      "Shoot me," he said to the stranger; "for if I am an uglier man than you I don't want to live."