Produced by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TRUE TO HIS HOME A TALE OF THE BOYHOOD OF FRANKLIN Books by Hezekiah Butterworth. =Each, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.= =The Log School-House on the Columbia.= With 13 full-page Illustrations by J. CARTER BEARD, E. J. AUSTEN, and Others. "This book will charm all who turn its pages. There are few books of popular information concerning the pioneers of the great Northwest, and this one is worthy of sincere praise."--_Seattle Post-Intelligencer._ =In the Boyhood of Lincoln.= _A Story of the Black Hawk War and the Tunker Schoolmaster._ With 12 full-page Illustrations and colored Frontispiece. "The author presents facts in a most attractive framework of fiction, and imbues the whole with his peculiar humor. The illustrations are numerous and of more than usual excellence."--_New Haven Palladium._ =The Boys of Greenway Court.= _A Story of the Early Years of Washington._ With 10 full-page Illustrations by H. WINTHROP PEIRCE. "Skillfully combining fact and fiction, he has given us a story historically instructive and at the same time entertaining."--_Boston Transcript._ =The Patriot Schoolmaster;= _Or, The Adventures of the Two Boston Cannon, the "Adams" and the "Hancock."_ A Tale of the Minute Men and the Sons of Liberty. With Illustrations by H. WINTHROP PEIRCE. The true spirit of the leaders in our War for Independence is pictured in this dramatic story. It includes the Boston Tea Party and Bunker Hill; and Adams, Hancock, Revere, and the boys who bearded General Gage, are living characters in this romance of American patriotism. =The Knight of Liberty.= _A Tale of the Fortunes of Lafayette._ With 6 full-page Illustrations. "No better reading for the young man can be imagined than this fascinating narrative of a noble figure on the canvas of time."--_Boston Traveller._ * * * * * New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. [Illustration: LITTLE BEN'S ADVENTURE AS A POET. (See page 113.)] TRUE TO HIS HOME A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH AUTHOR OF THE WAMPUM BELT, IN THE BOYHOOD OF LINCOLN, ETC. The noblest question in the world is, What good may I do in it? POOR RICHARD _ILLUSTRATED BY H. WINTHROP PEIRCE_ [Illustration] NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1897 COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. PREFACE. THIS volume is an historical fiction, but the plan of it was suggested by biography, and is made to include the most interesting and picturesque episodes in the home side of the life of Benjamin Franklin, so as to form a connected narrative or picture of his public life.