. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. in the United States, and is falling into disuse in England. 80 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. Those who conthiued sotting with their beer all day,were often, by not paying, out of credit at the ale-house, and used to make interest with me to getbeer; their light, as they phrased it, beutg out. Iwatched the pay-table on Saturday night, and col-lected what I stood engaged for them, having to paysometimes near thirty shillings a week on their ac-counts. This, and my being esteemed a pretty goodriggite, that is, a jocul
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. in the United States, and is falling into disuse in England. 80 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. Those who conthiued sotting with their beer all day,were often, by not paying, out of credit at the ale-house, and used to make interest with me to getbeer; their light, as they phrased it, beutg out. Iwatched the pay-table on Saturday night, and col-lected what I stood engaged for them, having to paysometimes near thirty shillings a week on their ac-counts. This, and my being esteemed a pretty goodriggite, that is, a jocular verbal satirist, supported myconsequence in the society. My constant attend-ance (I never making a St. Blonday) recommendedme to the master; and my uncommon quickness atcomposing occasioned my being put upon work ofdispatch, which was generally better paid. So 1w^ent on now^ very agreeably. My lodgings in Little Britain being too remote, Ifound another in Duke-street, opposite to the RomishChapel. It was up three pair of stairs backward,at an Italian warehouse. A widow lady kept the. LIFE OF FRANKLIN. house; she had a daughter, and a maid servant, anda journeyman who attended the warehouse, butlodged abroad. After sending to inquire my char-acter at the house where I last lodged, she agreed totake me in at the same rate, three shillings and six-pence -a week; cheaper, as she said, from the pro-tection she expected in having a man to lodge in thehouse. She was a widow, an elderly woman ; hadbeen bred a Protestant, being a clergymans daughter,but was converted to the Catholic religion by herhusband, whose memory she much revered; hadUved much among people of distinction, and knewa thousand anecdotes of them as far back as thetime of Charles the Second. She was lame in herknees with the gout, and, therefore, seldom stirredout of her room, so sometimes wanted company;and hers was so highly amusing to me, that I wassure to spend an evening with her whenever she de-sired it. Our s
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