My Tiny Portion
This completely describes my capacity
The portion of some might lie in the palm of a man’s hand
Ben Franklin describes the books he read as a child.
He includes books that he loved and books he did not love and how he wished that he had access to other, less religious, books which might have been more appropriate for a child thirsty for reading. "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 R. Burton's Historical Collections; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 or 50 in all. " Benjamin Franklin, "Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin", 2.1
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