The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark An Example for Youth.
CHAPTER XV.
THE RUNAWAY.
A Quarrel--Asserting his Freedom--Statement of the Case--Appeal to his Father--His Father's Decision--Leaves his Brother--Fails to get Work--Charged with being an Infidel--Plans to run away--Conference with Collins--His Plan to get away--Collins's Talk with the Captain of a New York Sloop, and his Base Lie--Benjamin Boards the Sloop--Arrival in New York--His lonely Condition--Guilt of a Runaway--Quarrel between Brothers painful--Case of William Hutton--Lines of Dr. Watts 137-147