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Title: The life of Benjamin Franklin
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Holley, O. L. (Orville Luther), 1791-1861 Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Statesmen
Publisher: New York : G.F. Cooledge & Brother
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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night at Browns, and the nextmorning, which was Saturday, proceeded to Burlington,which, however, he did not reach, till a little after theregular boats for Philadelphia had gone. While pas-sing through the town, he had stopped a moment at thedoor of an elderly woman, who sold gingerbread, ofwhich he had purchased a little to comfort him on hisexpected passage to Philadelphia ; and now, upon learn-ing that no boat was likely to leave Burlington for thatcity, sooner than the next Tuesday, he turned back fromthe river-side to the house of the gingerbread woman,whose look he thought had been kindly, to acquaint herwith his disappointment, and ask her advice. On hear-ing his statement, she very hospitably offered to lodgehim, till he could find a passage. To this, leg-weary ashe was, he gladly assented ; and as they talked together,the good woman, learning that he was a printer, pro-posed, in her ignorance of what would be needed forthe purpose, that he should set up his business in Bur-
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THE GINGERBREAD WOMAN. 41 lington. She further manifested her kindness by givinghim a nice dinner of ox-cheek, accepting only a pot ofale in return. To the youth of seventeen, weary, lonely, far fromhome for the first time in his life, w^ith a dim and un-certain prospect before him, the kindness of that-poorwoman must have given unwonted efficacy to the re-freshing virtues of the ox-cheek and the ale ; for bet-ter is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a stalledox, and hatred therewith. It was a pleasant stage inhis wet and dreary journey ; and he was expecting, notdiscontentedly, to remain with the hospitable ginger-bread-woman till Tuesday, when, as the day was clo-sing and he was walking by the side of the river, he sawa boat coming down on its way to Philadelphia, withseveral persons on board, and with them he obtained apassage. There was no wind, and it was necessary to row.About midnight, having seen nothing ahead betokeningtheir approach to the city, some of the company, fea

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