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How I Arrived at Philadelphia (Benjamin Franklin)
(Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. After an apprenticeship as a printer he left Boston when he was seventeen and went to Philadelphia to seek his independence and fortune.)
I disliked my apprenticeship and wished for some opportunity to end it. I sold some of my books to get a little money and, with the help of a friend, made arrangements for my trip. In three days I found myself in New York, nearly 300 miles from home. I was but a boy of seventeen, without the least recommendation to or knowledge of any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket.
Having learned a trade in printing, I offered my services to the printer in the place, old Mr. William Bradford, who had been the first printer in Pennsylvania before he moved to New York. He could give me no employment, but he said, "My son at Philadelphia needs an assistant and if you go there, I believe he may hire you."
Philadelphia was 100 miles further. I set out, however, in a boat for Amboy, leaving my trunk of clothes to follow my by a larger ship. Just outside New York harbor, a storm drove our little boat upon the shore of Long Island. With night approaching, the boatman had no choice but to wait until the wind stopped. We tried to sleep but we were so crowded and uncomfortable with the water crashing over the boat and leaking through to us, that we had very little rest that night. The next evening, we managed to reach Amboy, having been thirty hours on the water without food or any drink.
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That night I became very feverish, and stayed in bed drinking plenty of cold, fresh water. The next morning I felt better, and I continued my journey on foot. On the third day I reached Burlington. Walking in the evening by the side of the river, I found a boat with several people in it that was going toward Philadelphia. They took me in, and , as there was no wind, we rowed all the way. We arrived at Philadelphia about eight or nine o'clock the following morning and landed at the Market Street per. All the money I had was one Dutch dollar and some small coins. I gave the coins to the owner of the boat, who at first refused to accept it because I had helped with the rowing but I insisted. A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty.
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I was in my working clothes; my best clothes were supposed to arrive at a later time by sea. I was dirty from my journey, my pockets filled with shirts and stockings, and I knew no one nor where to look for lodging. I was exhausted from traveling, rowing, and lack of sleep and I was very hungry. I walked up the street till I met a boy with bread. I had many a meal on bread, and asking where he got it, I went immediately to the shop and bought three great puffy rolls. Having no room in my pockets I walked off with a roll under each arm, eating the third. Thus I went up Market Street, passing by the door of Mr. Reed, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, foolish appearance.
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