A rescue MISSION doesn't involve GOING in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. EVERY kid has a case that is based on that child's original FAMILY. So, we MADE it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.
Lincoln's stature and STRENGTH, his intelligence and AMBITION - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among MEN in New Salem, rendered him equally ATTRACTIVE to the FAIR sex of that village.
I had a series of JOBS in the SMALL fishing village in WEST Wales where my family LIVED when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he CAUGHT.