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XVIII. HOW HE QUIT BOSTON.

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Decision to Leave James—Cruelty of the Latter—The Indenture—

Discussion over It with Collins—Advised to Get Place in Another

Printing Office in Boston—James Had Warned Them against Hiring

Him—Discloses His Decision to James—Unfair Use of Indenture—What

Benjamin Said of It Afterwards—Resolved to Run Away—Planned The

Method With Collins—Why Go by Water—How He Obtained Money—Collins

Engages His Passage—Collins' Deliberate Lie—On the Road to

Ruin—Collins' Report to Benjamin—Final Arrangements—Boarding the

Sloop—Scene off Block Island—Ben Converted to Flesh—Benjamin

Franklin's Experience Like William Hutton's.

From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin

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