ONE OFFICE. ALMOST ENOUGH TO REACH AROUND THE EARTH IN A
YEAR. WEIGH THESE PAPERS. FOUR MILLION POUNDS IN A YEAR.
-TWO THOUSAND TWO-HORSE LOADS. THE NEW ENGLAND COURANT
STARTED.- - PRINTER, NEWS-CARRIER, AND COLLECTOR. THE CLUB.
-INCITED TO WRITE AN ARTICLE. — TUCKS IT UNDER PRINTING-
OFFICE DOOR. HEARS IT FAVORABLY COMMENTED ON. WRITES
OTHER ARTICLES. THIS AN INCIDENT THAT DECIDES HIS CAREER.
-CANNING AT ETON AND THE "MICROCOSM.'
SEMINARIES NOW.

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SIMILAR PAPER IN

XIII.

The Cat out of the Bag

122

EAGER TO OWN THE PIECES. DISCLOSES THE AUTHORSHIP TO
JAMES. INTERVIEW WITH THE CLUB. SURPRISE THAT BENJAMIN
WROTE THEM. TREATED WITH ATTENTION BY THE CLUB.
PRESSED BY JAMES. TROUBLE WITH HIM. BENJAMIN RESOLVES
TO LEAVE HIM. THE PRINTING-OFFICE FURNISHES MANY SCHOLARS.
-A NEW ENGLAND DIVINE. BENJAMIN DIRECTED IN PATH TO
WHICH NATIVE ENDOWMENTS POINTED. SO OF LORD NELSON. —
ANECDOTE OF HIM.— BUXTON, WILBERFORCE, AND OTHERS. — EXAM-
PLE OF THE AUTHOR OF THE "OPTIC LIBRARY."

The Arrest.

XIV.

. 129

ACTION OF GENERAL COURT TO ARREST JAMES FRANKLIN FOR
LIBEL. THE LEGISLATIVE ORDER. JAMES IMPRISONED FOUR
WEEKS, AND BENJAMIN ARRESTED, BUT DISCHARGED. — THE IMME-
DIATE CAUSE OF THE ARREST.-MEETING OF THE CLUB. DECISION
TO PUBLISH THE PAPER IN BENJAMIN'S NAME.— SHREWD EVASION.
-YOUNGEST CONDUCTOR OF A PAPER WHO EVER LIVED. — HIS
THRUSTS AT THE GOVERNMENT. BENJAMIN BORN IN TROUBLOUS
TIMES. ATTACKS AND MASSACRES BY THE SAVAGES.-PREPARED
THEREBY TO ACT IN ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE. -
-BEARS IN BOSTON.

XV.

The Runaway

-

APPEAL TO HIS

. 136

A QUARREL. -ASSERTING HIS FREEDOM.- STATEMENT OF THE
CASE.
FATHER. - HIS FATHER'S DECISION.
LEAVES HIS BROTHER. FAILS ΤΟ GET WORK. CHARGED WITH
BEING AN INFIDEL.-PLANS TO RUN AWAY. CONFERENCE WITH
COLLINS. HIS PLAN TO GET AWAY.-COLLINS'S TALK WITH THE
CAPTAIN OF A NEW YORK SLOOP, AND HIS BASE LIE. BENJAMIN
BOARDS THE SLOOP.- ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK. HIS LONELY CON-
DITION. - GUILT OF A RUNAWAY. — QUARREL BETWEEN BROTHERS
PAINFUL.-CASE OF WILLIAM HUTTON. LINES OF DR. WATTS.

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XVI.

Another Trip and its Trials

145

CALLS ON PRINTER BRADFORD IN NEW YORK.NO WORK. - REC-
OMMENDED TO GO TO PHILADELPHIA. - ARRANGES FOR THE TRIP.
-STARTS FOR PHILADELPHIA. THE DRUNKEN DUTCHMAN. HIS
WET VOLUME AND BOTTLE. STRUCK BY A SQUALL. -A SAD NIGHT
OFF LONG ISLAND. — - BENJAMIN'S FEELINGS. THE NEXT MORNING.
STORM SUBSIDES. NEXT NIGHT ON SHORE.-ADVANTAGE OF A
LITTLE READING.-BOYS LOSE NOTHING BY SPENDING LEISURE
HOURS IN READING. THE YOUNG MAN IN MAINE.-DISCIPLINE OF
THE MIND. CASE OF GIBBON. WHAT BOYS SAY.-SIR WALTER
SCOTT IN BOYHOOD, AND HIS WARNING WORDS.—BENJAMIN LEAV-
ING AMBOY. - FIFTY MILES ON FOOT.-SUSPECTED OF BEING A
RUNAWAY.-REACHES THE QUACK DOCTOR'S TAVERN.- ARRIVAL
AT BURLINGTON. THE GINGERBREAD WOMAN. -THE BOAT GONE. -
GOING BACK TO THE GINGERBREAD WOMAN. — HIS WALK. THE
UNEXPECTED BOAT AND HIS PASSAGE. IN COOPER'S CREEK AT
MIDNIGHT. REACHED PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY MORNING. THE
SHILLING. THE BOY AND HIS LOAF. GOING UP MARKET STREET
WITH A BAKER'S LOAF UNDER EACH ARM. MISS READ. ASLEEP
IN A QUAKER CHURCH.-SUSPECTED AGAIN OF BEING A RUNAWAY.
-FIRST NIGHT IN PHILADELPHIA.

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XVII.

Getting Work

-

. 165

DISAPPOINT-

CALL UPON ANDREW BRADFORD. HIS SURPRISE.
MENT.-DIRECTED TO KEIMER. THE INTERVIEW.-ADVANTAGE OF
THOROUGHNESS. BENJAMIN DID THINGS WELL. — BRADFORD'S TALK
WITH KEIMER. — KEIMER ENSNARED. BENJAMIN MAKES A DIS-
CLOSURE. - KEIMER ASTONISHED. REPAIRING A PRINTING-PRESS.-
AT WORK FOR KEIMER, — GOES TO BOARD AT MR. READ'S. — HIS
POWER OF OBSERVATION. - STEPHENSON LIKE HIM.—WILLIAM HUT-
TON AGAIN AND HIS DULCIMER. PERSEVERANCE. NOT PROUD. —
HOW MANY BOYS WOULD HAVE DONE. MAXIMS.

INVITES HIM

KEITH CALLS TO SEE HIM. - SURPRISE OF KEIMER.
TO THE TAVERN. ADVISES HIM TO SET UP BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF.
BENJAMIN'S OBJECTIONS OVERRULED. - DECIDES TO RETURN TO
BOSTON TO ASK HIS FATHER'S ASSISTANCE. — HOW THE GOVERNOR
LEARNED OF BENJAMIN. HIS RETURN TO BOSTON. JOY AT HOME.
-HIS GENTLEMANLY APPEARANCE. GOES TO HIS BROTHER'S PRINT-
INTERVIEW WITH THE WORKMEN.

ING-OFFICE. COLD RECEPTION.

-

-

-

THE DOLLAR

EXHIBITION OF HIS SILVER COIN. HIS WATCH.
66 TREAT." - JAMES INCENSED. — INTERVIEW WITH HIS MOTHER.-
STATING BUSINESS TO HIS FATHER, AND GIVING HIM THE GOV-
ERNOR'S LETTER. HIS FATHER'S TALK WITH CAPTAIN HOMES.-
HIS FATHER'S DENIAL.-COLLINS RETURNS WITH HIM

-

TENTION. A NARROW ESCAPE. ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.- COLLINS
THERE FIRST, AND INTOXICATED. — MAKES A CONFESSION TO BENJA-
MIN. OWNS THAT HE GAMBLES. LOST ALL HIS MONEY.-MESSAGE
FROM GOVERNOR BURNET. — BENJAMIN GOES TO SEE HIM. TRIP TO
PHILADELPHIA. COLLECTS VERNON'S DEBT. TAKES COLLINS TO
BOARD WITH HIM.-THROWS COLLINS INTO DELAWARE RIVER.
THE FATE OF COLLINS. INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR KEITH.-THE
GOVERNOR RESOLVES TO SET HIM UP IN BUSINESS.

-

-

A Literary Game

XX.

194

THE THREE ASSOCIATES. -THEIR CHARACTERS.-DISCUSSION ABOUT
POETS AND POETRY. A PROPOSITION TO PARAPHRASE THE EIGH-
TEENTH PSALM. OSBORNE'S PREJUDICE, AND HOW TO PROVE HIM.
-BENJAMIN READS RALPH'S PIECE AS HIS OWN. THE SUCCESS OF
THE RUSE. SUBSEQUENT INTERVIEW OF BENJAMIN AND RALPH.-
THEIR DELIGHT OVER THE RESULT. THE EXPOSURE OF OSBORNE
AT THE NEXT MEETING. HIS MORTIFICATION. FATE OF WATSON
AND OSBORNE. ADVANTAGE OF SUCH LITERARY CLUBS.

Going to England

XXI.

202

INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR KEITH. — ARRANGEMENTS TO GO TO
ENGLAND IN THE ANNIS. ONLY ONE VESSEL A YEAR TO SAIL. —
STILL WORKS FOR KEIMER. -THE LATTER A SINGULAR MAN. EX-
PERIMENT OF A VEGETABLE DIET. KEIMER'S ABHORRENCE OF IT.
-EATS THE WHOLE OF A PIG AT LAST. HOW BENJAMIN CAME TO
RELINQUISH A VEGETABLE DIET. COURTING MISS READ. — HER
MOTHER OBJECTS TO ENGAGEMENT. -RALPH CONCLUDES TO GO
WITH HIM. — FOUR OR FIVE PRINTING-OFFICES THEN, AND TWO OR
THREE THOUSAND NOW. THE GOVERNOR'S LETTERS. -SET SAIL.
ARRIVAL IN LONDON.-DISCOVERS THAT HIS LETTERS ARE WORTH-
LESS. THE GOVERNOR A DECEIVER. TELLS HIS STORY TO DEN-
HAM. GOES TO WORK IN A PRINTING-OFFICE. AN ADVANTAGE OF

A BOOKSELLER.

WRITING COMPOSITION.-HIS "DISSERTATION ON LIBERTY AND NE-
CESSITY, PLEASURE AND PAIN.". -WON HIM FAME. BARGAIN WITH
BEER-DRINKING IN THE OFFICE. - BENJAMIN'S
OPPOSITION TO IT. HE WROUGHT A REFORM. HIS FIRMNESS AND
INDEPENDENCE. SWIMMING. DRAWN A MILE BY HIS KITE ON THE
WATER. — ADVISED TO OPEN SWIMMING-SCHOOL. - DECIDES TO RE-
TURN TO AMERICA. A SCENE FORTY YEARS AFTER.

XXII.

Farewell to England.

218

MEETS GOV-

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ARRIVAL IN PHILADELPHIA. CALLS ON KEIMER.

ERNOR KEITH IN THE STREET.INTERVIEW WITH MISS READ. —

HIS WANT OF FIDELITY. - DENHAM OPENED A STORE, AND BENJA-

MIN WAS HIS CLERK. — THE SICKNESS OF BOTH.-DENHAM DIES.

BENJAMIN THROWN OUT OF BUSINESS. RETURNS TO HIS TRADE, AND

WORKS FOR KEIMER. LEGACY FROM DENHAM. HIS FIDELITY AL-

WAYS PLEASED HIS EMPLOYERS. MANY YOUTH NOT CARE FOR

EMPLOYER'S SUCCESS. FIDELITY ONE SECRET OF BENJAMIN'S SUC-

CESS. THE OXFORD STUDENT. DANGERS OF THEATRICAL AMUSE-

MENTS AND BAD COMPANY. — TROUBLE WITH KEIMER. — REFUSES

TO WORK FOR HIM.- ARRANGEMENTS TO GO INTO BUSINESS WITH

MEREDITH.

THE

INVENTORY.-

KEIMER'S

-

MESSAGE.

--

AT

BURLINGTON. —

INTERVIEW WITH THE SURVEYOR-GEN-

FRIENDS MADE THERE.
ERAL. OPENING HIS OFFICE. -SAMUEL MICKLE. HIS CROAKING.
-THE RESULT. - POETICAL NOTICE IN THE PRINTING-OFFICE. HIS
RESOLUTION IN THE OUTSET. HIS INDUSTRY.-PROPHECIES ABOUT
FAILURE. THE EVERY-NIGHT CLUB. — THE LOUNGER REBUKED. —
FRANKLIN NEVER ABOVE HIS BUSINESS. CASE OF JUDGE MAR-
SHALL. ECONOMY.-HOW HE BEGAN TO KEEP HOUSE. MAXIMS.