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Began to Write Poetry at Seven—Had Practised Putting Thoughts

Together—James Praised His Pieces—Proposition to Write, Print,

and Sell Verses—Wrote Two—Sold Well—His Father's Severe Rebuke—

After-talk with James—Best Writers Deficient at First—Reporting to

James—Benefit to Ben—One of His Verses Preserved—What Franklin

Said of It in Manhood—How He Used the Spectator—Determined to Improve—His Own Description of His Literary Work—How He Acquired Socratic Method—Rhetoric and Logic—How a Single Book Made Wesley, Martin, Pope, Casey, Lincoln, and Others What They Were—A Striking Case.