the Business - Benjamin's Talk with His Mother - Bless- ings 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 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 James Franklin Returns from England a Printer- His Father's Talk about Learning That Trade - Benjamin Likes It - Ar- rangement with James-Printing in Its Infancy Then - Censor- ship 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 Read- ing-Budgett - The Printing-office, Where and What - Being What Franklin Said of Table-talk — What Heard at Table Now Another Experiment to Promote Swimming — His Secret of Success - The Trial of – 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 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 - - 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 Bur- ton's Historical Collections - Describes Them - Boyle's Lec- tures Kind Offer of Matthew Adams Borrowing Books of Booksellers' Clerks Great Favor-Books Very Scarce Then - Greenwood's English Grammar — Talk with Collins - Other Books Read Habit of Taking Notes - Letter of Franklin - 171 --- - Wrote Two Sold Well- His Fa- - Best Writers Began to Write Poetry at Seven-Had Practised Putting Thoughts Together-James Praised His Pieces Proposition to Write, Deficient at First Reporting to James - Benefit to Ben— - prove — His Own Description of His Literary Work - How - XV. THE "COURANT" IN TROUBLE. The Startling News from the Assembly - A Discussion — A Sar- - - - 188 - 204 XVI. THE BOY EDITOR. - - Attacking the Government - The Council Exasperated — Action - - - XVII. THE YOUNG SKEPTIC. Reading Shaftesbury's Work-Discussion with Collins - Ben's - - Several Par- agraphs Repugnant to Orthodoxy - Shaftesbury Attacking Sister Seeing His Folly - His Prayer Sad Experi- - 229 Decision to Leave James — Cruelty of the Latter - The Indent- - - 244 Applies for Work in New York- Bradford's Advice and Amboy - Benjamin Sick-A Young Man Travelling in Maine - Advantage of Reading-Sir Walter Scott's Advice -Going in Rain to Burlington - Landlord Suspected He Was a Runaway-At Doctor Brown's A Fine Time with the Doctor - Buying Gingerbread of Old Woman - His Dis- appointment-Way out of It Unexpected Deliverance - 261 |