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Tonight we'll read an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography,

where he describes his childhood.

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is their traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life memoirs written by Franklin from 1771 to 1790.

Only published well after his death.

This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples

of an autobiography ever written.

Let's get cozy.

Let's get cozy.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Beginning life as a printer. From a child I was fond of reading and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

Pleased with the Pilgrim's Progress, my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes.

I afterward sold them to enable me to buy our Burton's historical collections.

They were small Chapman's books and cheap, 40 or 50 in all.

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