. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. gs, too. So he ate off thein-di-go plants. But Miss Lucas was one of the people who try,try again. She had lost her indigo plants more she sowed some of the seed. Thistime the plants grew very well. Miss Lucas wrote to her father about it. He ■5 sent her a man who knew how to sfet the indigoout of the plant. The man tried not to show Miss Lucas how tomake the indigo. He didnot wish the people inSouth Carolina to learnhow to make it. He wasafraid his own peoplewould not get so muchfor their indigo. So he would not ex-plain just how i
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. gs, too. So he ate off thein-di-go plants. But Miss Lucas was one of the people who try,try again. She had lost her indigo plants more she sowed some of the seed. Thistime the plants grew very well. Miss Lucas wrote to her father about it. He ■5 sent her a man who knew how to sfet the indigoout of the plant. The man tried not to show Miss Lucas how tomake the indigo. He didnot wish the people inSouth Carolina to learnhow to make it. He wasafraid his own peoplewould not get so muchfor their indigo. So he would not ex-plain just how it oughtto be done. He spoiledthe indigo on purpose. But Miss Lucas watchedhim closely. She foundout how the indioo ouohtto be made. Some of herfathers land in SouthCarolina was now plantedwith the indigo plants. Then Miss Lucas wasmarried. She became Mrs. Pinck-ney. Her father gave her all the indigogrowing on his land in South Carolina. It was allsaved for seed. Some of tlie seed Mrs. Pinck-neyoave to her friends. Some of it her husband Indigo Plant. 26 It all grew, and was made into that blue dye that wecall indigo. When it is used in washing clothes, it is called bluing. In a few years, more than a million pounds ofindigo were made in South Carolina every people got rich by it. And it was all becauseMiss Lucas did not give up. FRANKLIN HIS OWN TEACHER. Few people ever knew so many things as Frank-lin. Men said, How did he ever learn so manythings ? For he had been a poor boy who hadto work for a living. He could not go to schoolat all after he was ten years old. His father made soap and candles. Little BenFrank-lin had to cut wicks for the candles. Healso filled the candle molds. And he sold soapand candles, and ran on errands. But when he wasnot at work he spent his time in reading goodbooks. What little money he got he used to buybooks with. He read the old story of Pil-grinVs Prog-ress,and liked it so well that he bought all the otherstories by the sam
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