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  1. Jan 17, 2019 · Franklin reminiscences when he was a small boy and paid too much for a whistle. He sure did learn how to strike a bargain, though. His letter was excerpted from a collection published in 1914, The Oxford Collection of American Essays, chosen by Branther Matthews.

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  3. Read Chapter I: The Whistle of The Story of Benjamin Franklin by James Baldwin. The text begins: Nearly two hundred years ago, there lived in Boston a little boy whose name was Benjamin Franklin. On the day that he was seven years old, his mother gave him a few pennies.

  4. Jul 5, 2018 · As one of the leading thinkers and public figures of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin knew a thing or two about getting things done—and playing the whistle (more on that later). He...

  5. Nov 9, 2009 · Benjamin Franklin is the only Founding Father to have signed all four of the key documents establishing the U.S.: the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Treaty of Alliance with France...

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  6. Dec 10, 2023 · The Whistle (1779) by Benjamin Franklin. →. Passy, November 10, 1779. I received my dear friend’s two letters, one for Wednesday and one for Saturday. This is again Wednesday. I do not deserve one for to-day, because I have not answered the former. But, indolent as I am, and averse to writing, the fear of having no more of your pleasing ...

  7. Sep 30, 2014 · Benjamin Franklin's whistles letter offers a glimpse of his clear, direct writing style, and demonstrates an apt use of metaphor.

  8. Sep 21, 2022 · Benjamin Franklin describes a childhood incident of buying a whistle that taught him a lesson he never forgot