The Printer Boy. / Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth.

his pocket, to spend as he saw fit. Possibly it was the first time he was ever permitted to go out alone

ppers when these ar

ny now as will be for your welfare, I think. Yo

r; and without waiting for a reply, he answered th

all want to see how much wisdom you display in your

ughts stood the toy-shop, into the windows of which he had often looked wistfully, although it was a small affair compared with the Boston toy-shops of the present day. Every article in it could have been examined in one or two hours, while now it would take as many days to view all the articles in

ng him the happiness of owning so valuable a treasure. He stopped and looked at him with an expression of delight, and they exchanged glances that showed a genuine sympathy springing up be

tles?" he

with a smile, as he brought forth a numbe

enjamin, without waiting to inquire the price, so enth

"Perhaps you have not so much as I ask for

you all the money I have for one," still more

h money

ch he had, and the merchant agreed to

he turned his steps towards home. He thought no more of other sights and scenes, and cared not for sweetmeats and knick-knacks, now that he owned this wonderful thing. He reached hom

ere, Benjamin?" i

ly stopping his blowing long e

to me," she continued. "Have y

histle that he had lost all his interest in everything else belonging to the holiday. His cup of de

our whistle?" asked one of h

ney I had,"

r, "did you give all your mo

ery cent

ou were," continued his brother. "It is fo

d his mother. "Some men will take all the money they can get for

said his brother, "you might have had enough l

, cakes, and more perhaps; but it is the fir

brother, rather deridingly. "All your money for that worthless thing, that is enough to make us crazy! You ought to have known bet

t case," said his cousin, at the same time looking very m

onger. He burst into tears, and made even more noise by crying than he had done with his whistle. Both their ridicule and the thought of ha

next time. We must all live and learn. Perhaps you

to have a little sport, seeing it is a holiday. S

never forgot. It destroyed his happiness on that holiday, but it saved him from much unhappiness in years to come. More th

my mind; so that often, when I was tempted to buy some unnecessary thing,

ed the actions of men, I thought I met with ma

nce on levées, his repose, his liberty, his virtue, and, perhaps, his friends,

f in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining the

fine equipages, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends

d to an ill-natured brute of a husband, What a pity

are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of th

or both his head and heart. Many boys are far less wise, and do the same foolish thing over

espect. Remember that there is more than one way to pay too dear

oundations for habitual untruthfulness, he pays too dear for the whistle; and he will learn the truth of it when he becomes o

ind that he has a very expensive whistle, when he becomes "hail fellow well met" among

old to the possessor, thinking less of goodness and a life of piety than he does of mere show and worldliness, will find that he