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before the parlor fire. Although the board
ers appeared to conhde, perfectly, in the
strangers honesty, it was not so with Mrs.
Franklin. With suspicious caution she col
lected her silver spoons, pepper box, AND
porringer, from her closet; and after secur-
ing her parlor door, by sticking fork over
the latch, carried the plate to her chamber;
charged the negro man to sleep with his
clothes Onto take the great clever to bed
with him, and to awaken and selze the va
grant at the first noise he made in attempt
ing to plunder the house. Having thus TAX
en- every precaution, she retired to bed with
her maid, whom she compelled to sleep in
her room.


Mrs Franklin rose before the sun, rous.
ed her domestics, unfastened the parlor door
with timid caution, and was agreeably sur
priscd to find her guest quietly sleeping on
his own chair. A sudden transition from ex-
tremc distrust to perfect confidence, was nat
ural. She awak encd him with a cheerful good
morning; inquired how he rested; invited him
to partake of her breakfast, which was al
ways served previous to that of her board
ers And pray sir, said the lady, as she sip
ped her chocolate, as you appear to be
stranger here, to what distant country do
you belongl !, madam, belong to the city
of PhiiQdrlhkiG. At the mention of Phiia-
phia the Doctor declared he, for the first
time, perceived any emotion in her. Phil
adelphia said she, and all the mother suf-
fused the eye: if you live in Philadelphia,
perhaps you kaow our Ben. Who madam
Why Ben Franklin--my Ben. What, said
the Doctor, is Ben Franklin the printer
your son, why, he is my most intimate
friend he and lodge in the same room.
oh God forgive me, exclaimed the old la
dy, raising her watery eyes to heaven--and
have suffered an acquaintance of my Ben
ny to sleep in this hard chair, while my
self rested on good bed


How the Doctor discovered himself to his
mother he has not informed us: but from the
above experiment, he was firmly convinced,
and was often afterwards heard to declare,
that naturaf affection does not exist.