E-text prepared by Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from scanned images of public domain material generously made available by the Google Books Library Project (http://books.google.com/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 38469-h.htm or 38469-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/38469/pg38469-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38469/38469-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through the the Google Books Library Project. See http://books.google.com/books?vid=OD9TNvh1EQ0C&id Transcriber's note: The total number of questions at the end of each chapter does not necessarily correspond to the total number of paragraphs in the chapter. Text is missing from the printed book at the end of Paragraph 19 in Chapter X. [Illustration: Franklin taking home his paper.] [Illustration: Reconciliation of Franklin with his Brother.] THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. ILLUSTRATED BY TALES, SKETCHES, AND ANECDOTES. ADAPTED TO THE USE OF SCHOOLS. WITH ENGRAVINGS. PHILADELPHIA: DESILVER, THOMAS & CO., No. 253 MARKET STREET. 1836. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by SAMUEL G. GOODRICH, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Transcriber's Notes: The total number of questions at the end of each chapter does not necessarily correspond to the total number of paragraphs in the chapter. Text is missing from the printed book at the end of Paragraph 19 in Chapter X. PREFACE. The following Preface to the Life of Columbus will explain the plan of the series, of which this is the third volume:-- "There is no kind of reading more attractive than biography, and, if properly treated, there is none more instructive. It appears, therefore, to be peculiarly fitted to the purposes of education; it readily excites the curiosity and awakens the interest of the pupil, and, while it stores his mind with facts, dates and events, displays to his view the workings of the human heart, and makes him better acquainted with himself and mankind. "In the selection of subjects for a biographical series of works for youth, the editor has been led, by two considerations, to prefer those which belong to our own country. In the first place, it is more particularly necessary that our youth should be made acquainted with the lives of those men who were associated with the history of their native land; and, in the second place, no country can afford happier subjects for biography than this. There are few such lives as those of Columbus, Washington, and Franklin, in the annals of any nation.