True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin
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Butterworth Hezekiah. True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE FIRST DAY
CHAPTER II. UNCLE BENJAMIN, THE POET
CHAPTER III. BENJAMIN AND BENJAMIN
CHAPTER IV. FRANKLIN'S STORY OF A HOLIDAY IN CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER V. THE BOY FRANKLIN'S KITE
CHAPTER VI. LITTLE BEN'S GUINEA PIG
CHAPTER VII. UNCLE TOM, WHO ROSE IN THE WORLD
CHAPTER VIII. LITTLE BEN SHOWS HIS HANDWRITING TO THE FAMILY
CHAPTER IX. UNCLE BENJAMIN'S SECRET
CHAPTER X. THE STONE WHARF, AND LADY WIGGLEWORTH, WHO FELL ASLEEP IN CHURCH
CHAPTER XI. JENNY
CHAPTER XII. A CHIME OF BELLS IN NOTTINGHAM
CHAPTER XIII. THE ELDER FRANKLIN'S STORIES
CHAPTER XIV. THE TREASURE-FINDER
CHAPTER XV "HAVE I A CHANCE?"
CHAPTER XVI "A BOOK THAT INFLUENCED THE CHARACTER OF A MAN WHO LED HIS AGE."
CHAPTER XVII. BENJAMIN LOOKS FOR A PLACE WHEREIN TO START IN LIFE
CHAPTER XVIII. LITTLE BEN'S ADVENTURES AS A POET
CHAPTER XIX. LEAVES BOSTON
CHAPTER XX. LAUGHED AT AGAIN
CHAPTER XXI. LONDON AND A LONG SWIM
CHAPTER XXII. A PENNY ROLL WITH HONOR. – JENNY'S SPINNING-WHEEL
CHAPTER XXIII. MR. CALAMITY
CHAPTER XXIV. FRANKLIN'S STRUGGLES WITH FRANKLIN
CHAPTER XXV. THE MAGICAL BOTTLE
CHAPTER XXVI. THE ELECTRIFIED VIAL AND THE QUESTIONS IT RAISED
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GREAT DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOME-COMING IN DISGUISE
CHAPTER XXIX "THOSE PAMPHLETS."
CHAPTER XXX. A STRANGE DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XXXI. OLD HUMPHREY'S STRANGE STORY
CHAPTER XXXII. THE EAGLE THAT CAUGHT THE CAT. – DR. FRANKLIN'S ENGLISH FABLE. – THE DOCTOR'S SQUIRRELS
CHAPTER XXXIII. OLD MR. CALAMITY AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXIV. OLD MR. CALAMITY AND THE TEARING DOWN OF THE KING'S ARMS
CHAPTER XXXV. JENNY AGAIN
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. – A MYSTERY
CHAPTER XXXVII. ANOTHER SIGNATURE. – THE STORY OF AUVERGNE SANS TACHE
CHAPTER XXXVIII. FRANKLIN SIGNS THE TREATY OF PEACE. – HOW GEORGE III RECEIVES THE NEWS
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE TALE OF AN OLD VELVET COAT
CHAPTER XL. IN SERVICE AGAIN
CHAPTER XLI. JANE'S LAST VISIT
CHAPTER XLII. FOR THE LAST TIME
CHAPTER XLIII. A LESSON AFTER SCHOOL
APPENDIX. FRANKLIN'S FAMOUS PROVERB STORY OF THE OLD AUCTIONEER
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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.
I have written no book with a deeper sympathy with my subject, for, although fiction, the story very truthfully shows that the good intentions of a life which has seemed to fail do not die, but live in others whom they inspire. Uncle Benjamin Franklin, "the poet," who was something of a philosopher, and whose visions all seemed to end in disappointment, deeply influenced his nephew and godson, Benjamin Franklin, whom he morally educated to become what he himself had failed to be.
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There had been fearful storms on the coast. Abiah Franklin was a silent woman when the winds bended the trees and the waves broke loudly on the shore. She thought then; she inwardly prayed, but she said little of the storm that was in her heart.
"I shall never see Josiah again," at last said Josiah Franklin. "It is a pity; it is hard on me that the son who bears my name should leave me, to become a wanderer. Boys will do such things. I may have made his home too strict for him; if so, may the Lord forgive me. I have meant to do my best for all my children. – Ben, let Josiah be a warning to you; you have been having the boy fever to go to sea. Hear the winds blow and the sea dash! Josiah must have longed to be back by the fire on nights like these."
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