"Well, you lovely little creeter, you; you do not need to repeat it; you know the lesson already; it was born in you; you have the Franklin heart!"
"Beloved Boston," Franklin used to say when he became old. What wonder, when it was associated with memories like these!
CHAPTER XII.
A CHIME OF BELLS IN NOTTINGHAM.
Some time after Uncle Benjamin, who became familiarly known as Uncle Ben, had revealed to little Ben his heart's secret, and how that he had for his sake sold his library of pamphlets, which was his other self, the two again went down to the wharves to see the ships that had come in.
They again seated themselves in an anchored boat.
"Ben," said Uncle Benjamin, "I have something more on my mind. I did not tell you all when we talked here before. You will never forget what I told you—will you?"