</p> <p> &ldquo;But, pray, dear father, tell us what made him so famous,&rdquo; said George. &ldquo;I have seen his portrait a great many tines. There is a wooden bust of him in one of our streets; and marble ones, I suppose, in some other places. And towns, and ships of war, and steamboats, and banks, and academies, and children are often named after Franklin. Why should he have grown so very famous?&rdquo; </p> <p> &ldquo;Your question is a reasonable one, George,&rdquo; answered his father. &ldquo;I doubt whether Franklin&rsquo;s philosophical discoveries, important as they were, or even his vast political services, would have given him all the fame which he acquired. It appears to me that Poor Richard&rsquo;s Almanac did more than anything else towards making him familiarly known to the public. As the writer of those proverbs which Poor Richard was supposed to utter, Franklin became the counsellor and household friend of almost every family in America. Thus it was the humblest of all his labors that has done the most for his fame.&rdquo; </p> <p> &ldquo;I have read some of those proverbs,&rdquo; remarked Edward; &ldquo;but I do not like them. They are all about getting money or saving it.&rdquo; </p> <p> &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said his father, &ldquo;they were suited to the condition of the country; and their effect, upon the whole, has doubtless been good, although they teach men but a very small portion of their duties.&rdquo; </p> <p> <br /><br /><br /> </p> <h3> CHAPTER IX. </h3> <p> Hitherto Mr. Temple&rsquo;s narratives had all been about boys and men. But, the next evening, he bethought himself that the quiet little Emily would perhaps be glad to hear the story of a child of her own sex. He therefore resolved to narrate the youthful adventures of Christina, of Sweden, who began to be a queen at the age of no more than six years. If we have any little girls among our readers, they must not suppose that Christina is set before them as a pattern of what they ought to be. On the contrary, the tale of her life is chiefly profitable as showing the evil effects of a wrong education, which caused this daughter of a king to be both useless and unhappy. Here follows the story. </p> <p> <br /><br /><br /> <a name="christina"></a> </p> <h3> QUEEN CHRISTINA. </h3> <h4> [BORN 1626 DIED 1689] </h4> <p> In the royal palace at Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden, there was horn, in 1626, a little princess. The king, her father; gave her the name of Christina, in memory of a Swedish girl with whom he had been in love. His own name was Gustavus Adolphus; and he was also called the Lion of the