. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. years after, to turn the Bible into dog-gerel verse, as Cotton had formerly done with Vir-gil. By this means he set many facts in a ridicu-lous light, and might have done mischief with weakminds if his work had been published; but it neverwas. At his house I lay that night, and arrived thenext morning at Burlington, but had the mortifica-tion to find that the regular boats were gone a littlebefore, and no other expected to go before Tuesday,this being Saturday ; wherefore I returned to anold woman in the
. Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography : with a narrative of his public life and services. years after, to turn the Bible into dog-gerel verse, as Cotton had formerly done with Vir-gil. By this means he set many facts in a ridicu-lous light, and might have done mischief with weakminds if his work had been published; but it neverwas. At his house I lay that night, and arrived thenext morning at Burlington, but had the mortifica-tion to find that the regular boats were gone a littlebefore, and no other expected to go before Tuesday,this being Saturday ; wherefore I returned to anold woman in the town, of whom I had boughtsome gingerbread to eat on the water, and askedher advice. She proposed to lodge me till a passage 38 LIFE OF FRANKLIN. bj some other boat occurred. I accepted her offer,being much fatigued by travehng on foot. Under-standing I was a printer, she would have had meremain in that town and follow my business, beingignorant what stock was necessary to begin was very hospitable, gave me a dinner of ox-cheek with great good will, accepting only of a pot of. ale in return ; and I thought myself fixed till Tues-day should come. However, walking in the even-ing by the side of the river, a boat came by, whichI found was going toward Philadelphia, with severalpeople in her. They took me in, and, as there wasno wind, we rowed all the way; and about mid-night, not having yet seen the city, some of thecompany were confident we must have passed it,and would row no further; the others knew notwhere we were ; so we put toward the shore, got LIFE OF FRANKLIN. 39 into a creek, landed near an old fence, with the railsof which we made a fire, the night being cold, inOctober, and there we remained till daylight. Thenone of the company knew the place to be CoopersCreek, a little above Philadelphia, which we saw assoon as we got out of the creek, and arrived thereabout eight or nine oclock on the Sunday morning,and landed at Market-street wharf. I have been the more
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