True to His Home

About this eBook

Author

Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905

Title

True to His Home: A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin

Credits

Produced by Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

26442

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26442

Release Date

August 27, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TRUE TO HIS HOME — A TALE OF THE BOYHOOD OF FRANKLIN — Books by Hezekiah Butterworth. — TRUE TO HIS HOME — A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin — BY
2. 2.HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
6. 6.TRUE TO HIS HOME.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — THE FIRST DAY.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — UNCLE BENJAMIN, THE POET.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — BENJAMIN AND BENJAMIN.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — FRANKLIN'S STORY OF A HOLIDAY IN CHILDHOOD.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — THE BOY FRANKLIN'S KITE.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — LITTLE BEN'S GUINEA PIG.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — UNCLE TOM, WHO ROSE IN THE WORLD.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — LITTLE BEN SHOWS HIS HANDWRITING TO THE FAMILY.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — UNCLE BENJAMIN'S SECRET.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — THE STONE WHARF, AND LADY WIGGLEWORTH, WHO FELL ASLEEP IN CHURCH.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — JENNY.
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — A CHIME OF BELLS IN NOTTINGHAM.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — THE ELDER FRANKLIN'S STORIES.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — THE TREASURE-FINDER.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — "HAVE I A CHANCE?"
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — "A BOOK THAT INFLUENCED THE CHARACTER OF A MAN WHO LED HIS AGE."
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — BENJAMIN LOOKS FOR A PLACE WHEREIN TO START IN LIFE.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — LITTLE BEN'S ADVENTURES AS A POET.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — LEAVES BOSTON.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — LAUGHED AT AGAIN.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — LONDON AND A LONG SWIM.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — A PENNY ROLL WITH HONOR.—JENNY'S SPINNING-WHEEL.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — MR. CALAMITY.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — FRANKLIN'S STRUGGLES WITH FRANKLIN.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — THE MAGICAL BOTTLE.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. — THE ELECTRIFIED VIAL AND THE QUESTIONS IT RAISED.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE GREAT DISCOVERY.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXVIII. — HOME-COMING IN DISGUISE.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXIX. — "THOSE PAMPHLETS."
36. 36.CHAPTER XXX. — A STRANGE DISCOVERY.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXI. — OLD HUMPHREY'S STRANGE STORY.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXII. — THE EAGLE THAT CAUGHT THE CAT.—DR. FRANKLIN'S ENGLISH FABLE.—THE DOCTOR'S SQUIRRELS.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIII. — OLD MR. CALAMITY AGAIN.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXIV. — OLD MR. CALAMITY AND THE TEARING DOWN OF THE KING'S ARMS.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXV. — JENNY AGAIN.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVI. — THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.—A MYSTERY.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVII. — ANOTHER SIGNATURE.—THE STORY OF AUVERGNE SANS TACHE.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — FRANKLIN SIGNS THE TREATY OF PEACE.—HOW GEORGE III RECEIVES THE NEWS.
45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIX. — THE TALE OF AN OLD VELVET COAT.
46. 46.CHAPTER XL. — IN SERVICE AGAIN.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLI. — JANE'S LAST VISIT.
48. 48.CHAPTER XLII. — FOR THE LAST TIME.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIII. — A LESSON AFTER SCHOOL.
50. 50.APPENDIX. — FRANKLIN'S FAMOUS PROVERB STORY OF THE OLD AUCTIONEER. — THE END. — FOOTNOTES:
51. 51.BOOKS BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
52. 52.GOOD BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS. — Transcriber's Notes:

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