Arrange your paper as you are accustomed to do. Number the lines from one to ten. As you read each of the following statements, decide for yourself if it is true or false, and write the word _true_ or the word _false_ as the case may be, on the proper line of your paper.
3. The American Indians were always friendly to the early settlers.
5. The monks of the middle ages were the best educated men of their time.
6. The Pilgrims settled Virginia in 1620.
7. It is not important that a voter should be intelligent.
8. Warm clothing costs less than doctors' bills.
Here is Benjamin Franklin's own account of his first attempt at writing. You see, he did not have a chance to learn to write, as you do, by practice in composition in school.
My brother had, in 1720 or 1721, begun to print a newspaper. It was the second that appeared in America, and was called the "New England Courant". The only one before it was the "Boston News-Letter". I remember his being _dissuaded_ by some of his friends from the undertaking, as not likely to succeed, one newspaper being, in their judgment, enough for America. At this time (1771) there are not less than five and twenty. He went on, however, with the undertaking; and after having worked in composing the types and printing off the sheets, I was employed to carry the papers through the streets to the customers.
He had some ingenious men among his friends, who amused themselves by writing little pieces for this paper, which gained it credit and made it more in demand; and these gentlemen often visited us. Hearing their conversations, and their accounts of the _approbation_ their papers were received with, I was excited to try my hand among them; but being still a boy, and suspecting that my brother would object to printing anything of mine in his paper if he knew it to be mine, I contrived to _disguise_ my hand; and, writing an _anonymous_ paper, I put it in at night under the door of the printing-house. It was found in the morning and communicated to his writing friends when they called in as usual. They read it, and commented on it in my hearing; and I had the _exquisite_ pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some _character_ among us for learning and _ingenuity_. I suppose now that I was rather lucky in my judges and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then _esteemed_ them.