Pleasant Anecdote IF DR.. Franklin.
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"Friend Franklin" said Myers Fisher,
the celebrated Quaker lawyer of Philadel-
phia, one day to the DR.. "thce knows al
most every thing: can thee tell me how !
am to preserve,my small beer in the back
yard : my neighbours are often tapping 1t
Of nights


"i'ut barrel of old Madeira by the side
OF it," replied the Doctor" let them but
get taste of the Madeira, and III engage
they will never trouble the small beer any
more.


This same great Philosopher used to say
"that if parents would but give their sons
an early taste for the Madeira OF Learning
they would hardly ever take to the detesta-
BILE small beer of vices