Excerpt from Young Benjamin Franklin; Or the Right Road Through Life: A Story to Show How Young Benjamin Learned the Principles Which Raised Him From a Printer's Boy to the First Embassador of the American Republic; A Boy's Book on a Boy's Own Subject IT was Walter Scott Who first raised his voice against the folly of writing down to the child, saying, Wisely enough, that the true object among authors for the young should be to write the child up to'the inan. As people talk broken En glish to Frenchmen, and nurses prattle the baby dialect to babies, so it was once thought that boys' books should be essentially puerile - as puerile in subject and puerile in style as the tales about Don't-care Harry (who was torn to pieces by a hungry lion merely because he would persist in declaring that he didn't care about certain things in life), and such-like tender bits of ver dure that used to grace the good old English spelling-books of some quarter of a century back. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.