... Where is your mother? continued the President. My mother is dead also. I have no mother, no father, no brothers, no sisters, and, bursting into tears, no friends — nobody cares for me. Mr. Lincoln 's eyes filled with tears, and he said to him, Can't you sell newspapers? No, said the boy, I am too weak; and the surgeon of the hospital told me I must leave, and I have no money, and no place to ...