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diff --git a/78663-h/78663-h.htm b/78663-h/78663-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..33a860d --- /dev/null +++ b/78663-h/78663-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,302 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title> + The Whistle | Project Gutenberg + </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + +body { + margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + + h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + clear: both; +} + +p { + margin-top: .51em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .49em; + text-indent: 1em; +} + +hr { + width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: 33.5%; + margin-right: 33.5%; + clear: both; +} + +hr.chap {width: 65%; margin-left: 17.5%; margin-right: 17.5%;} + +div.chapter {page-break-before: always;} + +.pagenum { /* uncomment the next line for invisible page numbers */ + /* visibility: hidden; */ + position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: small; + text-align: right; + font-style: normal; + font-weight: normal; + font-variant: normal; + text-indent: 0; + color: #A9A9A9; +} /* page numbers */ + +blockquote { + margin-left: 5%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + +.center {text-align: center;} + +/* Images */ + +img { + max-width: 100%; + height: auto; +} +img.w100 {width: 100%;} + + +.figcenter { + margin: auto; + text-align: center; + page-break-inside: avoid; + max-width: 100%; +} + +.fs80 {font-size: 80%} +.fs90 {font-size: 90%} +.fs120 {font-size: 120%} +.fs150 {font-size: 150%} + +.no-indent {text-indent: 0em;} +.wsp {word-spacing: 0.3em;} +.lh {line-height: 1.5em;} + +p.drop-cap { + text-indent: 0em; +} +p.drop-cap:first-letter +{ + float: left; + margin: 0em 0.1em 0em 0em; + font-size: 250%; + line-height:0.85em; +} + +.upper-case +{ + text-transform: uppercase; +} + +h2 {font-size: 130%; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.6em; word-spacing: .3em;} + +/* Illustration classes */ +.illowp7 {width: 7%;} +.illowp85 {width: 85%;} + </style> +</head> + +<body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78663 ***</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 85%"> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" data-role="presentation"> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<p class="center no-indent fs80"> + <em>Copyright, 1921,</em><br> + <em>Brad Stephens & Co., Boston</em> +</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<h1> +THE WHISTLE +</h1> + +<p class="center no-indent wsp lh"> + By<br> + BENJAMIN FRANKLIN<br> + <br> + <span class="fs120"><em>Extract from a Letter Written by</em><br> + <em>Franklin to Madame Brillon</em><br> + <em>November, 1779</em></span><br> + </p> + <br> + <figure class="figcenter illowp7" id="decorative" style="max-width: 9.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/decorative.jpg" alt=""> +</figure> + <br> + <br> +<p class="center no-indent wsp lh"> + <em><span class="fs80">Published by</span></em><br> + <span class="fs120">BRAD STEPHENS & COMPANY</span><br> + <em>142 BERKELEY STREET</em>,<br> + BOSTON +</p> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<figure class="figcenter illowp85" id="benfranklin" style="max-width: 51.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/benfranklin.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + <em><span class="fs90">From the Portrait by Duplessis in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts</span></em> + <br> + BENJAMIN FRANKLIN + </figcaption> +</figure> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p> + + +<p class="center no-indent fs150 wsp"> + THE WHISTLE</p> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp7" id="decorative_2" style="max-width: 9.5625em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/decorative.jpg" alt=""> +</figure> +</div> + + +<p class="drop-cap"><span class="upper-case">When</span> I was a child of seven +years old, my friends, on a +holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. +I went directly to a shop where +they sold toys for children; and, being +charmed with the sound of a <em>whistle</em>, +that I met by the way in the hands +of another boy, I voluntarily offered +and gave all my money for one. I +then came home, and went whistling +all over the house, much pleased with +my <em>whistle</em>, but disturbing all the +family. My brothers, and sisters, and +cousins, understanding the bargain I +had made, told me I had given four +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span>times as much for it as it was worth; +put me in mind what good things I +might have bought with the rest of +the money; and laughed at me so +much for my folly, that I cried with +vexation, and the reflection gave me +more chagrin than the <em>whistle</em> gave +me pleasure.</p> + +<p>This, however, was afterwards of use +to me, the impression continuing on +my mind; so that often, when I was +tempted to buy some unnecessary +thing, I said to myself, <em>Don’t give +too much for the whistle</em>; and I saved +my money.</p> + +<p>As I grew up, came into the world, +and observed the actions of men, I +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span>thought I met with many, very many, +who <em>gave too much for the whistle</em>.</p> + +<p>When I saw one too ambitious of +court favor, sacrificing his time in +attendance on levees, his repose, his +liberty, his virtue, and perhaps his +friends, to attain it, I have said to +myself, <em>This man gives too much for +his whistle</em>.</p> + +<p>When I saw another fond of popularity, +constantly employing himself +in political bustles, neglecting his own +affairs, and ruining them by that neglect, +<em>He pays, indeed</em>, said I, <em>too much +for his whistle</em>.</p> + +<p>If I knew a miser, who gave up every +kind of comfortable living, all the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span>pleasure of doing good to others, all +the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and +the joys of benevolent friendship, for +the sake of accumulating wealth, +<em>Poor man</em>, said I, <em>you pay too much +for your whistle</em>.</p> + +<p>When I met with a man of pleasure, +sacrificing every laudable improvement +of the mind, or of his fortune, +to mere corporeal sensations, and +ruining his health in their pursuit, +<em>Mistaken man</em>, said I, <em>you are providing +pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; +you give too much for your whistle</em>.</p> +<br> + +<figure class="figcenter illowp85" id="mybrothers" style="max-width: 49.4375em;"> + <img class="w100" src="images/mybrothers.jpg" alt=""> + <figcaption> + My brothers, sisters and cousins laughed at me so much for my + folly that I cried with vexation. + </figcaption> +</figure> +<br> + +<p>If I see one fond of appearance, or +fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, +fine equipages, all above his +<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a><a id="Page_6"></a>[Pg 6]</span>fortune, for which he contracts debts, +and ends his career in a prison, <em>Alas!</em> +say I, <em>he has paid dear, very dear, for +his whistle</em>.</p> + +<p>When I see a beautiful, sweet-tempered +girl married to an ill-natured +brute of a husband, <em>What a pity</em>, say +I, <em>that she should pay so much for a +whistle!</em></p> + +<p>In short, I conceive that great part +of the miseries of mankind are +brought upon them by the false +estimates they have made of the +value of things, and by their <em>giving +too much for their whistles</em>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span></p> +<br> +<br> + +<p class="drop-cap"><em><span class="upper-case">This</span> Franklin Handicraft Book is number one in +a series of ten now in preparation. You can purchase +either a finished book, or the materials only +and bind and hand color your own Franklin Book. A +special label to go on the inside front cover is supplied +with each printed signature, so that those who make +their own books can attach their name to each copy.</em></p> +<br> +<br> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 78663 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/78663-h/images/benfranklin.jpg b/78663-h/images/benfranklin.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f08f21 --- /dev/null +++ b/78663-h/images/benfranklin.jpg diff --git a/78663-h/images/cover.jpg b/78663-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..55f26e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/78663-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/78663-h/images/decorative.jpg b/78663-h/images/decorative.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bb0055 --- /dev/null +++ b/78663-h/images/decorative.jpg diff --git a/78663-h/images/mybrothers.jpg b/78663-h/images/mybrothers.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..612d294 --- /dev/null +++ b/78663-h/images/mybrothers.jpg |
