| Benjamin Franklin - 1888 - 332 pages
...her : "You love stories, and will excuse my telling one of myself. "When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| William M. Thayer - Biography & Autobiography - 1889 - 510 pages
...telling one of myself. " When I was a child of seven years old my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1891 - 296 pages
...telling one of myself. When I was a child of seven years old my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children, and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Henry Beebee Carrington - American literature - 1894 - 448 pages
...MUCH FOR THE WHISTLE. WHEN I was a child, says Dr. Franklin, my friends, on a holiday filled my little pockets with coppers. I went directly to a shop where...children ; and being charmed with the sound of a whistle in the hands of another boy whom I met by the way, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton, Kate Stephens, George Henry Browne - Literature - 1895 - 328 pages
...Benjamin Franklin. WHEN I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children, and being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1895 - 324 pages
...seven years old my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shopwhere they sold toys for children, and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle, that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Charles Frederick Hoffman - 1896 - 204 pages
...for your whistle. Listen to Benjamin Franklin on this subject. " When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pockets with...children ; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
| Edward Sylvester Ellis - United States - 1896 - 184 pages
...telling one of myself. "When I was a child of seven years old, my friends on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went directly to a shop where they...children; and, being charmed with the sound of a whistle that I met by the way in the hands of another boy, I voluntarily offered and gave all my money for... | |
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