A hard lesson: young Ben Franklin gets "corrected.".Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that , author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once and got into mischief A specific injury or damage caused by another person's action or inaction. In Civil Law, a person who suffered physical injury due to the Negligence of another person could allege mischief in a lawsuit in tort. . In writing about his life, Franklin recalled a youthful event that he later regretted. Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. His father, whom Ben admired and respected, was a soapmaker and candlemaker with a large family. At the age of ten, Ben was taken out of school and put to work in the shop. Ben described his duties as "cutting wick for the candles, filling the dipping mold and the molds for cast candies, attending the shop, going on errands, etc." But of course he preferred playing outdoors with his friends. The Franklin family lived near the water, so Ben learned to swim well and to handle small boats. He wrote that he was a leader among the boys in his neighborhood and "sometimes led them into scrapes." One such episode is told here in his own words. "There was a salt-marsh that bounded part of the mill-pond, on the edge of which, at high water, we used to stand to fish for minnows. By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire. My proposal was to build a wharf WHARF. A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchandise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge of such vessel. there fit for us to stand upon, and I showed my comrades My Comrade is a queer underground magazine published and edited by Linda/Les Simpson, a drag queen from New York City. It was published between 1987 and 1994, and came back recently in 2004. a large heap of stones, which were intended for a new house near the marsh, and which would very well suit our purpose. Accordingly, in the evening, when the workmen were gone, I assembled a number of my play-fellows, and working with them diligently dil·i·gent adj. Marked by persevering, painstaking effort. See Synonyms at busy. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d like so many emmets [ants], sometimes two or three to a stone, we brought them all away and built our little wharf. The next morning the workmen were surprised at missing the stones, which were found in our wharf. Inquiry was made after the removers; we were discovered and complained of; several of us were corrected by our fathers; and, though I pleaded the usefulness of the work, mine convinced me that nothing was useful which was not honest." "Be neither silly, nor cunning Cunning See also Trickery. Adler, Irene cleverly foiled Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia. [Br. Lit.: Doyle “A Scandal in Bohemia” in Sherlock Holmes] Artful Dodger , but wise." "A lie stands on one leg. Truth on two." "A good example is the best sermon." --From Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanack published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continuously from 1732 to 1758. |
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