True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 56
er would not consent, and so Benjamin, like an obedientson, gave it up, though he often lay awake at nights and thought BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 57 how grand it would be to bound over the great billows and tovisit all the 1^^ countries of the world. Sometimes he I would dream he was away on theup to find… … wouldwade into the marsh and fish in amill-pond. Sometimesthe water was too cold,and besides he had heardit was not healthy to standin the water. So he saidto the boys that it wouldbe a good thing to build BEN FRANKLIN MOULDING CANDLES IN Hit*FATHERS SHOP. 5« BENJAMIN FRANKLIN a wharf to stand on…
