1 6 RISEN BY PERSEVERANCE. 



whole stock of cash consisted in a single dollar, and about 

 a shilling in copper coin, which I gave to the boatmen for 

 my passage. At first they refused it, on account of my 

 having rowed; but I insisted on their taking it. Man is 

 sometimes more generous when he has little money than 

 when he has plenty; perhaps to prevent his being thought 

 to have but little. I walked towards the top of the street, 

 gazing about till near Market Street, where I met a boy 

 with bread. I had often made a meal of dry bread, and 

 inquiring where he had bought it, I went immediately to the 

 baker's he directed me to. I asked for biscuits, meaning 

 such as we had at Boston; that sort, it seems, was not made 

 in Philadelphia. I then asked for a threepenny loaf, and 

 was told they had none. Not knowing the different prices, 

 nor the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to 

 give me three penny-worth of any sort. He gave me, accord- 

 ingly, three great puffy rolls. I was surprised at the quantity, 

 but took it; and having no room in my pockets, walked 

 off with a roll under each arm, and eating the other. Thus 

 I went up Market Street, as far as Fourth Street, passing by 

 the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father, when she, 

 standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I 

 certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then 

 I turned and went down Chesnut Street and part of Walnut 

 Street, eating my roll all the way, and coming round, found 

 myself again at Market Street Wharf, near the boat I came 

 in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and 

 being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a 

 woman and her child that came down the river in the boat 

 with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I 

 walked again up the street, which by this time had many 



