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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with Introduction and Notes Edited

By: Charles W. Eliot

...ot an English Bible, and to conceal and secure it, it was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool. When my great great gr... ...ed up the joint stool upon his knees, turning over the leaves then under the tapes. One of the children stood at the door to give notice if he saw the... ...z.: I. That there shall be paid for each waggon, with four good horses and a driver, fifteen shillings per diem; and for each able horse with a pack s... ...ime of their discharge, or from time to time, as it shall be demanded. 5. No drivers of waggons, or persons taking care of the hired horses, are on an... ...wanted, and compel as many persons into the service as would be necessary to drive and take The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 127 care of them. ... ... spare from the business of their plantations a waggon and four horses and a driver, may do it together, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two... ...ether, one furnishing the waggon, another one or two horses, and another the driver, and divide the pay propor tionately between you; but if you do n...

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