Libel--The
Legislative Order--James imprisoned four weeks, and Benjamin
arrested, but discharged--The immediate Cause of the Arrest--Meeting
of the Club--Decision to publish the Paper in Benjamin's Name--
Shrewd Evasion--Youngest Conductor of a Paper who ever lived--His
Thrusts at the Government--Benjamin born in troublous Times--
Attacks and Massacres by the Savages--Prepared thereby to act
in achieving Independence--Bears in Boston 130-136

CHAPTER XV.

THE RUNAWAY.

A Quarrel--Asserting his Freedom--Statement of the Case--Appeal to
his Father--His Father's Decision--Leaves his Brother--Fails to get
Work--Charged with being an Infidel--Plans to run away--Conference
with Collins--His Plan to get away--Collins's Talk with the Captain
of a New York Sloop, and his Base Lie--Benjamin Boards the
Sloop--Arrival in New York--His lonely Condition--Guilt of a
Runaway--Quarrel between Brothers painful--Case of William
Hutton--Lines of Dr. Watts 137-147

CHAPTER XVI.

ANOTHER TRIP AND ITS TRIALS.

Calls on Printer Bradford in New York--No Work--Recommended to go to
Philadelphia--Arranges for the Trip--Starts for Philadelphia--The
Drunken Dutchman--His wet Volume and Bottle--Struck by a Squall--A
sad Night off Long Island--Benjamin's Feelings--The next morning--
Storm subsides--Next night on shore--Advantage of a little Reading--
Boys lose nothing by spending leisure Hours in Reading--The Young
Man in Maine--Discipline of the Mind--Case of Gibbon--What
Boys say--Sir Walter Scott in Boyhood, and his warning Words--
Benjamin leaving Amboy--Fifty Miles on Foot--Suspected of
being a Runaway--Reaches the Quack Doctor's Tavern--Arrival at
Burlington--The Gingerbread Woman--The Boat gone--Going back to the
Gingerbread Woman--His Walk--The unexpected Boat and his Passage--In
Cooper's Creek at Midnight--Reached Philadelphia on Sunday
Morning--The Shilling--The Boy and his Loaf--Going up Market Street
with a Baker's Loaf under each Arm--Miss Read--Asleep in a Quaker
Church--Suspected again of being a Runaway--First Night in
Philadelphia 148-166

CHAPTER XVII.

GETTING WORK.

Call upon Andrew Bradford--His Surprise--Disappointment--Directed to
Keimer--The Interview--Advantage of Thoroughness--Benjamin did
things well--Bradford's Talk with Keime