Chapter 16

ANOTHER TRIP AND ITS TRIALS.

Calls on Printer Bradford in New York--No Work--Recommended to go to Philadelphia--Arranges for the Trip--Starts for Philadelphia--The Drunken Dutchman--His wet Volume and Bottle--Struck by a Squall--A sad Night off Long Island--Benjamin's Feelings--The next morning-- Storm subsides--Next night on shore--Advantage of a little Reading-- Boys lose nothing by spending leisure Hours in Reading--The Young Man in Maine--Discipline of the Mind--Case of Gibbon--What Boys say--Sir Walter Scott in Boyhood, and his warning Words-- Benjamin leaving Amboy--Fifty Miles on Foot--Suspected of being a Runaway--Reaches the Quack Doctor's Tavern--Arrival at Burlington--The Gingerbread Woman--The Boat gone--Going back to the Gingerbread Woman--His Walk--The unexpected Boat and his Passage--In Cooper's Creek at Midnight--Reached Philadelphia on Sunday Morning--The Shilling--The Boy and his Loaf--Going up Market Street with a Baker's Loaf under each Arm--Miss Read--Asleep in a Quaker Church--Suspected again of being a Runaway--First Night in Philadelphia 148-166