Franklin was an old man, he wrote a
curious letter. In that
letter he told a story. It was about something
that happened to him when he was a boy.
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Here is the story put into verses, so that you will
remember it
better. Some day you can read the story as Franklin told it himself.
You will hear people say, "He paid too much for the whistle." The
saying came from this story.
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