...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter...

...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter...

...an interesting reference to breakfast in his Autobiography when he describes his early married life: For instance my Breakfast was for a long time Bread and Milk, (no Tea) and 1 ate it out of a twopenny earthen Porringer with a Pewter Spoon, But mark how Luxury will enter Families,...

...an interesting reference to breakfast in his Autobiography when he describes his early married life: For instance my Breakfast was for a long time Bread and Milk. ino Teat and I ate il out of a twopenny earthen Porringer with a Pewter Spoon. Bui mark how Luxury...

...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter...

...tending Shop, purchasing old Linen Rags for the Paper-makers, &c &c. We kept no idle Servams, our Tahle was plain and simple, our Furniture of the cheapest. For instance my Breakfast was a long time Bread and Milk, lno Tea,) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen Porringer with a Pewter...

...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast for a long time was bread and milk (no tea), and I eat it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with...

...folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the papermakers, etc., etc. We kept no idle servants, our table was plain and...furniture of the cheapest. For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a two penny earthen porringer, with a pewter...

...similar vein Franklin comments on the frugality of his household in the early days of his marriage. We kept no idle Servants, our Table was plain and...Furniture of the cheapest. For instance my Breakfast was a long time Bread and Milk, (no Tea) and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen Porringer with a Pewter...

...pamphlets, tended the shop, purchased old line for paper-makers. " We kept no servants," he says, " our table was plain and simple, our furniture of the...twopenny earthen porringer, with a pewter spoon." One morning he found his breakfast in a china bowl, with a silver spoon ! They had cost three-andtwenty...