. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. use of the letters we had as puncheons, 92 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. Struck the matrices in lead, and thus supphed in apretty tolerable way all deficiencies. I also engravedseveral things on occasion; made the ink; I waswarehouseman, and, in short, quite ^ fac-totum. But, however serviceable I might be, I found thatmy services became every day of less importance, asthe other hands improved in their business; and,when Keimer paid me a second quarters wages, helet me know that he felt them too heavy, and thoughtI
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. use of the letters we had as puncheons, 92 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. Struck the matrices in lead, and thus supphed in apretty tolerable way all deficiencies. I also engravedseveral things on occasion; made the ink; I waswarehouseman, and, in short, quite ^ fac-totum. But, however serviceable I might be, I found thatmy services became every day of less importance, asthe other hands improved in their business; and,when Keimer paid me a second quarters wages, helet me know that he felt them too heavy, and thoughtI should make an abatement. He grew by degreesless civil, put on more the airs of master, frequentlyfound fault, was captious, and seemed ready for anoutbreaking. I went on, nevertheless, with a gooddeal of patience, thinking that his encumbered cir-cumstances were partly the cause. At length atrifle snapped our connection; for, a great noisehappening near the court-house, I put my head outof the window to see what was the matter. Keimer,being in the street, looked up and saw me, called. LIFE OF FRANKLIN. 93 out to me ill a loud voice and angry tone to mindmy business, adding some reproacliful words, thatnettled me the more for their pubhcity, all the neigh-bors who were looking out on the same occasion be-ing witnesses how I was treated. He came up im-mediately into the printing-house, continued thequarrel, high words passed on both sides, he gaveme the quarters warning we had stipulated, express-ing a wish that he had not been obliged to so longa warning. I told him his wish was unnecessary, forI would leave him that instant; and so, taking myhat, walked out of doors, desiring Meredith, whom Isaw below, to take care of some things I left, andbring them to my lodgings. Meredith came accordingly in the evening, whenwe talked my affair over. He had conceived a greatregard for me, and was very unwilling that I shouldleave the house while he remained in it. He dis-suaded me from ret
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