Chapter 21

GOING TO ENGLAND.

Interview with Governor Keith--Arrangements to go to England in the Annis--Only one vessel a year to sail--Still works for Keimer--The latter a singular Man--Experiment of a Vegetable Diet--Keimer's Abhorrence of it--Eats the whole of a Pig at last--How Benjamin came to relinquish a Vegetable Diet--Courting Miss Read--Her Mother objects to Engagement--Ralph resolves to go with him--Four or Five Printing-offices then, and Two or Three Thousand now--The Governor's Letters--Set Sail--Arrival in London--Discovers that his Letters are Worthless--The Governor a Deceiver--Tells his Story to Denham--Goes to Work in a Printing-office--An Advantage of written Composition-- His "Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain"--Won him Fame--Bargain with a Bookseller--Beer-drinking in the Office-- Benjamin's Opposition to it--He wrought a Reform--His Firmness and Independence--Swimming--Drawn a Mile by his Kite on the Water-- Advised to open a Swimming-School--Decides on Returning to America--A Scene forty years after 204-219