. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . TABLE AND CHAIRS USED AT THE SIGNING OFTHE DECLARATION. They visited Carpenters Hall, farther down Chestnut street — a quaintreminder of colonial times, hedged about by great modern buildings, but withtiny courtyard and grass-plots. They read the inscription above the doorsof the audience room: Within these walls, Henry, Hancock, and Adamsinspired the delegates of the colonies with nerve and sinew for the toils ofwar, and then were quite ready to hunt up that historic corner of Seventhand Waln
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . TABLE AND CHAIRS USED AT THE SIGNING OFTHE DECLARATION. They visited Carpenters Hall, farther down Chestnut street — a quaintreminder of colonial times, hedged about by great modern buildings, but withtiny courtyard and grass-plots. They read the inscription above the doorsof the audience room: Within these walls, Henry, Hancock, and Adamsinspired the delegates of the colonies with nerve and sinew for the toils ofwar, and then were quite ready to hunt up that historic corner of Seventhand Walnut streets where, so the tablet in the new bank building announcedto them, had stood the house in which Jefferson wrote the Declaration. 8o THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS. PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM PENN, IN HIS TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. They dipped still deeper into the past, and hunted up the site of the oldhouses which William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, had built for him-self and his daughter on Letitia street, and so, at last, worked round again todinner and the contemplation of Franklin — Philadelphias most notablefigure, as Uncle Tom declared. I told you in Boston, he remarked, as the hungry tourists paused awhilebetween the roast and the dessert, that, looking upon the spot whereFranklin was born, I was inclined to put him down as the first real Ameri-can. The study of his life here in this city, for which he did so much, onlystrengthens me in that opinion. Benjamin Franklin was the product of hisown age and the child of his own country. How could he have been anything else, remarked practical Jack. It does sound a bit like a self-evident truth, Jack, I admit, laughedUncle Tom. But I hope you know what I mean. He was preeminentlywhat is called the c
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