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Title: The printer boy;
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Publisher: Boston, J. E. Tilton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ts stuffed out with sliirts andstockings, and a puffy roll under each arm, anda third in his hand of which he is eating! A com-ical appearance certainly! It is not very probablethat this runaway Benjamin will ever become Min-ister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, opsurprise the world by his philosophical discoveries!There is much more probability that he will live insome obscure printing-office, and die unknown,unhonored, and unsung. Who wonders that ayoung lady. Miss Read, who was standing in thedoor of her fathers residence as Benjamin passed,thought he made a very awkward and ridiculousappearance ? She little thought that she was tak-ing a birds-eye ^iew of her future husband, as theyouth with the rolls of bread under his arm provedto be. But just then he cared more for bread thanhe did for her; some years after, the case was re-versed, and he cared more for her than he did forbread. Turninor- down Chestnut Street he continued towalk until he came round to the wharf where he
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ANOTHER TRIP AND ITS TRIALS. IGl landed. Being thirsty, he went to the boat forwater, where he found the woman and child whocame down the river with them on the previousnight, waiting to go further. Are you hungry ? he inquired of the child,who lool^ed wistfully at his bread. We are both very hungry, answered tlie wo-man, speaking for herself and child. I have satisfied my hunger, said Benjamin, and you may have the rest of my bread if youwould like it, at the same time passing both rollsto her. You are very kind indeed, responded the wo-man. I thank you many times for it; — all ofwhich was as good pay for the bread as Benjaminwanted. This was another instance of his generos-ity, for which he was highly distinguished throughhis whole life. An American statesman said of him,in a eulogy delivered in Boston: No form of per-sonal suffering or social evil escaped his attention,or appealed in vain for such relief or remedy as hisprudence could suggest, or his purse supply. Fromthat day of

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