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From Boyhood to Manhood (Annotated): Life of Benjamin Franklin
by William M. Thayer
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CONTENTS
I. FROM OLD ENGLAND TO NEW ENGLAND.
Persecution Driving Franklin and Others Away--Discussion about Emigrating--Josiah Franklin--His Trade--Benjamin Franklin--Doctor Franklin's Account of His Ancestors--Meetings of Dissenters Broken Up--Why Josiah Decided to Go--Account of Their Family Bible--The Final Decision--The Franklin Family Influential--Thomas Franklin--The Franklin Poet--Doctor Franklin about His Father--What Boston was Then and Now--Exploring the Wilderness--Influence of Franklins in Boston.
II. THE FIFTEENTH GIFT.
Birth 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.
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