True stories of great American men : for young Americans (1898)
Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902 · Chicago ; Philadelphia ; Toronto : J.C. Winston · leaf 76
a very shrewdway and makethem like himso much theycould not re-fuse him. Thisteaches us alesson. If wewant people tohelp us, w emust makethem like us.It also remindsus of anotherwise saying: Vinegar nev- & DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AS MINISTER TO FRANCS. er catch e s flies. So Franklin went into… … 7» BENJAMIN iVRANKLUM out they were trying to answer by science, why it was that adead fish if dropped into a bucketful of water would cause itto run over, but if a live fish of the same size were put intothe bucket it would not run over. Many reasons were givenby the learned French doctors,…
