ANEcnorE oF FRANKLIN.
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The Doctor was walking one day in Front
street, near Chesnut street, in the city OF
Philadelphia, at the dawn of the Revolution,
when he was thus accosted by Tar:


us your name Ben Franklin" Yes. "Are
you the man who invented the saw dust pud-
ding" Yes, replied the Doctor "Then,"
said the sailor, 'tor Gods sake don't give
the receipt to make it to old F., our
merchant, as he will feed all his crews on
it,


The story of the saw dust pudding, alter
dictum, wheat bran pudding, arose in this
manner. The Doctor had conducted an in
dependent paper in Philadelphia, which
gave offence to class who wanted to rule
every body in their own way; and the heads
of this party, some fifteen or twenty, in
formed the Doctor that they would frown
him down, unless he would submit to the
curb. The Doctor proposed to explain,
and fixed the time at his own house, where
the gentlemen were invited to dine. He re
quested his lady to employ two pence III the
purchase of peck of white bran, and to
make two puddings of it--one for each end
Of the table, as he was to have fifteen or
twenty friends. The company met-the
two puddings we're served on the table,
without any other dishes-the company sat
down, ana eaCh Irlela was selFeu WIN d
slice of pudding. Their curiosity led them
to try it--thcy examined each others coun-
tenances, and at length were satiated with
the pudding. Friends, said the Doctor, will
you be helped to mores No, they all replied,
we have enough of your pudding. But what
means this> Why, replied the Doctor, it
means that these two puddings cost two
perce, and fifteen friends say they have G.
ugh.-Know then, that as long as Benja-
min Franklin can satisfy fifteen friends with
two pence, he never will sacrifice the indie
pendence of his paper.