INSTINCT.
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Doctor Benjamin Franklin, after the de-
cease of his father, returned to Boston, iii
order to paw his respects to his mother, who
resided in that city. He had been absent
some years, and at that period of life, when
the greatest and most rapid alteration IS


made in the human appearance, at a time


when the querulous voice OF the stripping


assumes the commanding tone OF the adult,


and smiling features of youth are succeeded


by the strong lines of manhood. The Doc


tor was sensible such was the alteration OF


his person, that his mother could not Know
him except bv that instinct, which 1t IS be-
lieved, can cause mothers heart TO beat


most violently in the presence ct child, and
point the maternal eve, with quick and sud
den glance, to beloved son.


To discover the existence, OF this u1Sfincl
by actual experience, the Doctor resolved
to introduce himself as a stranger, to ms
mother, and to watch, narrowly, for the
moment in which she should dicover her
son, and then to determine, with the cool
precision of the philosopher, whether that
dicovery was the effect of that instinct OF at
| fection--that intuitive love--that innate at
tachment. which is conjecturcd to cement
relatives of the same blood; and which, by


according the passions OF parent and CHILD
| like a well-tuned viol, would at the tlrs'
touch cause them to vibrate in unison and al


once evince that they were different chords
of the same instrument.


| On a sullen chilly day, in the month o.
January, in the afternoon, the Doctor knock