Tag: Benjamin Franklin
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Boyhood of Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, the youngest in a family of seventeen children, was born in Boston in 1706. Benjamin learned to read when he was very young, but he was only sent to school for two years. When he was ten years old he had to help his father. Franklin’s father made his living by boiling soap…
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YOUNG BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
YOUNG BENJAMIN FRANKLIN By Nathaniel Hawthorne. When Benjamin Franklin was a boy he was very fond of fishing; and many of his leisure hours were spent on the margin of the mill pond catching flounders, perch, and eels that came up thither with the tide. The place where Ben and his playmates did most of…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN ASKS THE SUNSHINE SOMETHING.
One day Franklin was eating dinner at the house of a friend. The lady of the house, when she poured out the coffee, found that it was not hot. She said, “I am sorry that the coffee is cold. It is because the servant forgot to scour the coffee-pot. Coffee gets cold more quickly when…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: How Benjamin Franklin Found Out Things
Benjamin Franklin thought that ants know how to tell things to one another. He thought that they talk by some kind of signs. When an ant has found a dead fly too big for him to drag away, he will run off and get some other ant to help him. Franklin thought that ants have…