Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 172
, and stumbles over a heap of filthyremnants of baskets in which roots had beenbrought from Amsterdam. No eye butFranklins would have seen the singlegreen sprout on one of the wythes. Buthe sees it, carefully cuts it away and carry-ing it to his neighbor, Mrs. Norris, asksleave to plant it in her… … FRANKLIN LANDING AT MARKET STREET WHARF ON HIS RETURN FROM FRANCE. 1785, 59 160 The Every-day Franklin shows to him a hint of life—a single greenseed among its dusty straws. He plants theseed, after a year or two succeeds ingrowing a crop of corn, and the old chroni-cler Watson boasted, even in his…
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