The Holiday--The Coppers in Benjamin Franklin's Pocket--Inquiry-- Bounding Out--The Toy-Shop Then and Now--The Boy and his Whistle--Resolved to Purchase--The Bargain--Going Home--Making Music--Discussion about the Price--A Pocketful of Good Things-- Benjamin crying over his Whistle--A Benefit--What Franklin said of it Sixty Years after--Boys do not Learn from the Past--Other Ways of paying too dear for a Whistle--Deceit and Falsehood-- Tippling--Worldly Pleasure 1-8 Talk about School--Brothers at Trades--Benjamin for the Church-- Early learned to Read--Long Process of Preparation for the Ministry--"Uncle Benjamin's" Remarks and Offer--Who is "Uncle Benjamin"--A Hundred Years Ago--When Benja…
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