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CHAPTER II. I Walked toward the top of the street, gazing about
till near Market-street, where I met a boy with bread. I had often
made a meal of dry bread, and, inquiring where he had bought it, I
went immediately to the baker's he directed me to. I asked for
biscuits, meaning such as we had at Boston; that sort, it seems,
was not made in Philadelphia. I then asked for a three-penny loaf,
and was told they had none. Not knowing the different prices, nor
the names of the different sorts of bread, I told him to give me
three-penny worth of any sort. He gave me, accordingly, three great
puffy rolls. 1 was surprised at the quantity, but took it, and,
having no room in my pockets, walked off with a roll under each
arm, and eating the other Thus I went up Market-street as far as
Fourth-street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's
father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made,
as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance. Then I
turned and went down Ches nut-street and part of Walnut-street,
eating my roll all the way, and, coming round, found myself again
at Market-street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went
for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my
rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down
the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go further Thus
refreshed, I walked again up the street which by this time had many
clean-dressed peoplein it, who were all walking the same way. I
joined them, and thereby was led into the great meetinghouse of the
Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and, after looking
round a while and hearing nothing said, being very drowsy through
labor and want of rest the preceding night, I fell fast asleep, and
continued so till the mee...
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