him on his return to America, and used them to
establish his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, in
"business as a printer, the original occupation of his
grandfather," explaining to a friend: "I am too old to
follow printing again myself, but, loving the business, I
have brought up my grandson Benjamin to it, and have
built and furnished a printing-house for him, which he
now manages under my eye."

Despite the many honors that had come to him, to
the last he held himself to be first and foremost a
printer, and began his will, "I, Benjamin Franklin,
Printer, late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United
States of America to the Court of France, and now
President of the State of Pennsylvania." It was at his
own request that "the Printers of the city, with their
Journeymen and Apprentices," were given a prominent
position in his funeral procession.

CONTINENTAL PAPER MONEY DESIGNED BY FRANKLIN.

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