whole house savory with their tantalizing perfume. Deborah, too, filled another gallon measure of dried apples and peaches out of the storecloset, to be duly stewed for the supper, and on the dresser stood another bowl of curds as big as a kettle-drum, and another huge jar of honey to serve the children for dessert.

And the day was not far advanced before the boys and girls, and the grown young men and their wives and little ones, all came swarming back again to the hive. Little Esther and Martha came first this time, one bringing a bead purse, and the other a knitted worsted comforter for young Ben; and scarcely had they kissed the little fellow, and wished him every success in life, before Jabez and Nehemiah, the carpenter's and mason's boys, came tearing over the house, the former laden with the promised rabbit-hutch; and after them came Zachary, the ship-builder, with his motherless little boy as before; and John Franklin, the tallow-chandler from Rhode Island, and his young Quakeress wife with her infant in her arms; and Abiah, the sister who had married the trader in furs and beaver-skins, but who, to the great disappointment of the boys, was now away on his travels among the Indian tribes; Thomas, the eldest brother, and hereditary smith of the family, came too, and Ebenezer, the young farmer, with his intended bride by his side, as well as sister Ruth, the captain's wife, with her little brood of chicks at her heels-indeed, all were there as at the previous feast, even including James the printer, to whom little Ben was going to be bound, and Uncle Ben's own son, the cutler-all the Franklins were there excepting poor Josiah the outcast.

And the merry-making and the games were as hearty as ever; and when the supper was over, and the bowls of Dame Franklin's celebrated "lambs'

wool" placed upon the table, Uncle Ben bade all present fill their mugs to the brim, and gave them the toast of the evening-"Health and success to young Benjamin Franklin; and may he live to be the man we wish him."

The candle-store in Hanover Street fairly shook again with the volley of brothers' cheers that followed the sentiment; and when silence was comparatively restored, the little fellow stood up, in obedience to a summons from his uncle, and made his first speech like a man-a speech that was full of faith and hope for the future, and regret for the past a speech that made the good old mother weep tears of joy, and the father shake him warmly by the hand, and bid him "God speed;" and a speech, too, which set all the sisters hugging and kissing him, and vowing "he was their own dear Benny, that he was."

And when all was quiet in the house, and Ben, and Jabez, and Nehemiah were up in their room, playing with Master Toby, the pet Guinea-pig, as they prepared for bed, little Benjamin cried suddenly as he was taking off his shoes, "Oh! I forgot; I haven't wished Uncle Ben good-night."

So down he scampered, unshod as he was, and, with only his little knee-breeches and his shirt to cover him, burst suddenly into the old man's room.

Uncle Ben was on his knees beside his bed; and as the little fellow crept up and stooped to kiss him, he felt that the cheek of his best friend in the world was all wet with tears

Tears that the godson never forgot-no, not even when the practice of the godfather's philosophy had made him the first embassador from the American Republic.

THE END.

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