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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.