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of Benjamin Franklin on Sunday—The Fifteenth Child—God's

       Gift—Proposition to Baptize Him the Same Day—Discussion over

       It—Baptized on That Day by Doctor Willard—The Church Record—House

       in Which He was Born—Josiah's Children—Death of Wife and Second

       Marriage—The Folger Family—Name for Uncle Benjamin—Personal

       Beauty—Words of Parton—Josiah Took Up Trade of Tallow-chandler—The

       Business and Place Described—Sons Apprenticed—Josiah a Good

       Musician—Condition of the World When Benjamin was Born in 1706.

      III. PAYING TOO DEAR FOR THE WHISTLE.

      Seven Years Old—First Money to Spend as He Pleased—Advice Gratis—Boy with Whistle—Benjamin Buys a Whistle—Going into the Concert Business—Scene in the Family—Tormented by John for Paying All His Money—Ben Breaks Down—Father and Mother Takes His Part—The Lesson He Learned—What He Wrote about It at Seventy-two Years of Age—When Boys Pay Too Dear for the Whistle—Dickens—Keeping the Secret—How the Secret Came Out.

      IV. IN SCHOOL.

      Uncle Benjamin and His Poetry—His Family—His Letter about Ben—Plans for School and Doctor Willard—Goes to School at Eight Years of Age—Description of His Father—Of His Mother—Inscription on Their Monument—Nathaniel Williams, Teacher—Description of School-house—His Scholarship High—His Teacher Praises Him—Led the School—Prophecies about Him—Webster—Rittenhouse—Stephenson.

      V. OUT OF SCHOOL.

      Poverty Forces Him to Leave School—His Mother's View—Hard Time for

       Ministers—Brownell's School of Penmanship—How Ben Could Help His

       Father—Boys Put to Work Young Then—His Obedience—A Well-Disciplined

       Boy—Incident of His Manhood to Rebuke a Landlord—Robert Peel and

       Harry Garland—The Eight Hall Brothers—His Progress.

      VI. FROM SCHOOL TO CANDLE-SHOP.

      Arrival of Uncle Benjamin—Opposed to Taking His Nephew Out of School—

       Thinks Ben is Very Talented—Prospects of the Business—Benjamin's

       Talk with His Mother—Blessings of Industry—Doctor Franklin's

       Proverbs—Became Wiser Than His Father—Tallow-Chandler at Ten Years

       of Age—His Father Saw His Dissatisfaction—Josiah, the Runaway Son,

       Returns—Wanted to Go to Sea—The Proposition Vetoed—Uncle Benjamin

       Against It.

      VII. CHOOSING A TRADE AND STEALING SPORT.

      Love of a Trade Necessary to Success—Following "Natural Bent"—Square

       Boys in Round Holes—Smeaton—Benjamin Pleased with a New Plan—

       Examining Different Trades—The Cutler, Brazier, etc.—Chooses Cutler's

       Trade—Enters Shop on Trial—Disagreement on Terms—The Good It Did

       Him—Sport on the Water—An Evil Proposition—Stealing Stones—The

       Wharf Built—The Thieves Detected—How Benjamin's Father Found Him

       Out—Benjamin's Confession and Promise—The End.

      VIII. BECOMING PRINTER-BOY.

      James Franklin Returns from England a Printer—His Father's Talk About

       Learning That Trade—Benjamin Likes It—Arrangement with James—

       Printing in Its Infancy Then—Censorship over Printing—Bound to

       His Brother—Form of Indenture—William Tinsley—White Slavery—Poor

       Children Sold at Auction—A Printer-boy and How He Liked—Time for

       Reading—Budget!—The Printing-office, Where and What—Being on

       Time—After a Book Before Breakfast—Washington's Punctuality—

       Franklin's Like It.

      IX. TABLE-TALK EDUCATION.

      What Franklin Said of Table-talk—What Heard at Table Now—Its Moulding Influence—That of His Grandfather—The Franklins Good in Conversation—Extract from Parton—Letter of Franklin to His Wife in 1758—Pythagoras—Cicero—Josiah Franklin—His Wise Counsels—Origin of His Temperance Principles—No Temperance Cause Then—The Washburne Family—The Way the Twig is Bent.

      X. LEADER OF SPORTS AND THOUGHTS.

      Love of Reading and Fun—The Best Swimmer, etc.—Invention to Promote

       Swimming—His Secret of Success—The Trial of the Apparatus—Hard on

       the Wrists—Another Experiment Proposed—Swimming Promoted by a

       Kite—Delight of the Boys—What Franklin Said of It in Manhood—The

       Seed Thought of Drawing Lightning from a Cloud with a Kite—His

       Experiment and Joy—What He Wrote about It—Advocate of Liberal Female

       Education—Correspondence with Collins—His Father's Opinion—How

       Benjamin Tried to Improve—How He Gained Time—Wise Maxims in

       Age—Maxims—C.G. Frost and One Hour a Day—What Spare Moments Did

       for Benjamin.

      XI. STARTING A NEWSPAPER.

      Only Three Newspapers in America—Created a Stir—What Newspaper

       Business is in Boston Now—How to Estimate It—Benjamin Manages the

       Printing of It—His Interest in It—Its Warm Reception—Proposition

       to Board Himself—What He Gained by It—His Object Self-improvement—

       James Selfish, Benjamin Generous—Their Talk about the Plan—What His

       Bill-of-Fare Was—How Come to Adopt Vegetable Diet—More Maxims—

       Cocker's Arithmetic—His Success.

      XII. THE RUSE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.

      What Parton Says of Courant—The Knot of Liberals—Ben's First Anonymous Article, and His Ruse—Discussion over It by the Courant Club—Decided to Publish It—Benjamin Puts It in Type—It Created a Sensation—The Second Article, Better Than First—Excitement over It Still Greater—Ben's Exultation—James' Astonishment—Surprise of the "Knot"—Ben a Favorite Now—How the Autobiography Tells the Story— Decided Ben's Career—Canning and Microcosm—Examples of Industry, Tact, etc.—Boy without a Name.

      XIII. BOOKS OF HIS BOYHOOD.

      Four Classes of Readers—Ben after Diamonds—Hungry Mind—Words of Thomas Hood—What Franklin Said—First Book Pilgrim's Progress—Talk with His Father—What Franklin Said of Narrative—Plutarch's Lives—Easy to Do Good—What They Were—Incident by Parton—Plan to Buy Burton's Historical Collections—Describes Them—Boyle's Lectures—Kind Offer of Matthew Adams—Borrowing Books of Booksellers' Clerks—Great Favor—Books Very Scarce Then—Greenwood's English Grammar—Talk with Collins—Other

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