. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . BUSY DAYS 119 disposed, he could bring us out of our beds half anhour too early, or keep us working just that muchlonger at night, if so be it was a cloudy day whenwe could not watch the sun. BUSY DAYS I suppose because of our having shown ourselvesgood nail makers, some of the people believed Jethroand I might be able to do the work of men, therefore. on this winter when the Friends meeting-house wasto be built near the river, we were asked to lend ahand. It was to have a framework of logs, covered withgood, fair boards on the outside, and
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . BUSY DAYS 119 disposed, he could bring us out of our beds half anhour too early, or keep us working just that muchlonger at night, if so be it was a cloudy day whenwe could not watch the sun. BUSY DAYS I suppose because of our having shown ourselvesgood nail makers, some of the people believed Jethroand I might be able to do the work of men, therefore. on this winter when the Friends meeting-house wasto be built near the river, we were asked to lend ahand. It was to have a framework of logs, covered withgood, fair boards on the outside, and with clapboardsinside. Until this time the Friends meetings had 120 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA been held in this house or that, as was most convenient;but when Governor Penn had come, it seemed certainwe ought to have some regular meeting-house. Save for the fact that this inviting us to take partin the labor seemed to show we were looked upon asnearly men, instead of boys, I should not have feltpleased at being thus remembered; but we couldnot well refuse, since all the nails were bought fromus, and, as our share, we put in three full days ofwork far more wearying than standing at the forgehammering iron. By the time we had done with this job, SamuelCarpenter took it into his head to build a dock justabove Walnut Street, and, instead of buying his spikesin England, he proposed to Jethro and me that
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