James Franklin Returns from England a Printer—His Father's Talk About
Learning That Trade—Benjamin Likes It—Arrangement with James—
Printing in Its Infancy Then—Censorship over Printing—Bound to
His Brother—Form of Indenture—William Tinsley—White Slavery—Poor
Children Sold at Auction—A Printer-boy and How He Liked—Time for
Reading—Budget!—The Printing-office, Where and What—Being on
Time—After a Book Before Breakfast—Washington's Punctuality—
Franklin's Like It.
IX. TABLE-TALK EDUCATION.
What Franklin Said of Table-talk—What Heard at Table Now—Its Moulding Influence—That of His Grandfather—The Franklins Good in Conversation—Extract from Parton—Letter of Franklin to His Wife in 1758—Pythagoras—Cicero—Josiah Franklin—His Wise Counsels—Origin of His Temperance Principles—No Temperance Cause Then—The Washburne Family—The Way the Twig is Bent.
X. LEADER OF SPORTS AND THOUGHTS.
Love of Reading and Fun—The Best Swimmer, etc.—Invention to Promote
Swimming—His Secret of Success—The Trial of the Apparatus—Hard on
the Wrists—Another Experiment Proposed—Swimming Promoted by a
Kite—Delight of the Boys—What Franklin Said of It in Manhood—The
Seed Thought of Drawing Lightning from a Cloud with a Kite—His
Experiment and Joy—What He Wrote about It—Advocate of Liberal Female
Education—Correspondence with Collins—His Father's Opinion—How
Benjamin Tried to Improve—How He Gained Time—Wise Maxims in
Age—Maxims—C.G. Frost and One Hour a Day—What Spare Moments Did
for Benjamin.
XI. STARTING A NEWSPAPER.
Only Three Newspapers in America—Created a Stir—What Newspaper
Business is in Boston Now—How to Estimate It—Benjamin Manages the
Printing of It—His Interest in It—Its Warm Reception—Proposition
to Board Himself—What He Gained by It—His Object Self-improvement—
James Selfish, Benjamin Generous—Their Talk about the Plan—What His
Bill-of-Fare Was—How Come to Adopt Vegetable Diet—More Maxims—
Cocker's Arithmetic—His Success.
XII. THE RUSE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
What Parton Says of Courant—The Knot of Liberals—Ben's First
Anonymous Article, and His Ruse—Discussion over It by the Courant
Club—Decided to Publish It—Benjamin Puts It in Type—It Created a
Sensation—The Second Article, Better Than First—Excitement over It
Still Greater—Ben's Exultation—James' Astonishment—Surprise of the
"Knot"—Ben a Favorite Now—How the Autobiography Tells the Story—
Decided Ben's Career—Canning and Microcosm—Examples of Industry,
Tact, etc.—Boy without a Name.