True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 62
lked toBurlington. Here he was met by trouble he had not lookedfor. His ragged clothes, wet and soiled, made him look likewhat we now call a tramp ; but there were no tramps in thosedays. They thought he was a runaway and came very nearputting him in jail, and he says he was then sorry he had… … A FASHIONABLE CHAISE IN WHICH PEOPLE RODS INTHE DAYS OP FRANKLIN. Franklin agreed to gohelp him row the boatsage. They arrived atthe night, but as therewere then no streetlamps in the city, theypassed by withoutknowing it. At lengththey went ashore andmade a fire to dry them-selves, and waited…
