Chapter 23

SETTING UP BUSINESS.

The Inventory--Keimer's Message--At Burlington--Friends made there--Interview with the Surveyor-general--Opening his Office-- Samuel Mickle--His Croaking--The Result--Poetical Notice in the Printing-office--His Resolution in the Outset--His Industry-- Prophecies about Failure--The Every-Night Club--The Lounger rebuked--Franklin never above his Business--Case of Judge Marshall--Economy--How he began to Keep House--Maxims-- Integrity--The Slanderer turned away--Socrates and Archelaus-- Business prosperous--Hopes and Fears--Coleman and Grace, and their Offer--Talk with Meredith, and the Latter leaves 230-243