ckets full of the simpler necessities of
clothing, which must have made him look like a ragman; everything about
him was queer and seemingly wrong. She may have seen that he was just
from the boat, and a traveler, but when did ever a traveler look so
entirely out of his senses as this one did?

Never mind, Ben Franklin. You will one day stand in Versailles in the
velvet robes of state, and the French king will give you his portrait
framed in four hundred and eight diamonds.

"I then turned the corner," he continues, "and went through Chestnut
Street, eating my roll all the way; and having made this round, I found
myself again on Market Street Wharf, near the boat in which I arrived. I
stepped into it to take a draught of river water, and finding myself
satisfied with my first roll, I gave the other two to a woman and her
child who had come down the river with us in the boat and was waiting to
continue her journey. Thus refreshed, I regained the street, which was
now full of well-dressed people, all going the same way. I joined them,
and was thus led to a large Quakers' meeting-house near the
market-place. I sat down with the rest, and, after looking round me for
some time, hearing nothing said, and being drowsy from my last night's
labor and want of rest, I fell into a sound sleep. In this state I
continued till the assembly dispersed, when one of the congregation had
the goodness to wake me. This was consequently the first house I entered
or in which I slept at Philadelphia.

"I began again to walk along the streets by the riverside, and, looking
attentively in the face of every one I met with, I at length perceived a
young Quaker whose countenance pleased me. I accosted him, and begged
him to inform me where a stranger might find a lodging. We were then
near the sign of the Three Mariners. 'They receive travelers here,'
said he, 'but it is not a house that bears a good character. If you will
go with me I will show you a better one.' He conducted me to the Crooked
Billet, in Water Street. There I ordered something for dinner, and
during my meal a number of curious questions were put to me, my youth
and appearance exciting the suspicion of my being a young runaway. After
dinner my drowsiness returned, and I threw myself upon a bed without
taking off my clothes, and slept till six o'clock in the evening, when I
was called to supper. I afterward went to bed at a very early hour, and
did not awake till the next morning.