"Ah! you are a long way from home for such a youngster. What is your name?"
"My name is Benjamin Franklin, and I am going to Philadelphia after work."
"No work in Boston, I s'pose, hey? How long since you left?"
"About a week. I did not expect to come further this way than New
York, but I could find no work there."
"No work in New York, hey? What sort of work do you do, that you find it so scarce?"
"I am a printer by trade, and I hope to get into a printing office in
Philadelphia."
"Wall, you are a pretty young one to take such a trip; I should hardly be willing my son should go so far from home, printer or no printer."
"I can afford to make such a trip, and even a longer one, if I can find steady work," suggested Benjamin.
"Your father and mother living?"
"Yes, sir."