The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark: An Example for Youth.Thayer, William Makepeace
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The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark: An Example for Youth.
Thayer, William Makepeace
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
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--Oppressed by James--Trouble
with him--Benjamin resolves to leave him--The Printing-office
furnishes many Scholars--A New England Divine--Benjamin directed
in the Path to which his Native Endowments pointed--So of Lord
Nelson--Anecdote of him--Buxton, Wilberforce, and Others--Example
of the Author of the "Optic Library" 123-129
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ARREST.
Action of General Court to Arrest James Franklin for Libel--The
Legislative Order--James imprisoned four weeks, and Benjamin
arrested, but discharged--The immediate 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 130-136
CHAPTER XV.
THE RUNAWAY.
A Quarrel--Asserting his Freedom--Statement of the Case--Appeal to
his Father--His Father's Decision--Leaves his Brother--Fails to 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 Condition--Guilt of a
Runaway--Quarrel between Brothers painful--Case of William
Hutton--Lines of Dr. Watts 137-147
CHAPTER XVI.
ANOTHER TRIP AND ITS TRIALS.
Calls on Printer Bradford in New York--No Work--Recommended 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 leaving 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 on 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 148-166
CHAPTER XVII.
GETTING WORK.
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