The whistle (Registro nro. 119381)
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| control field | 78663 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | UtSlPG |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260610134826.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 22018714 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PZ |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Franklin, Benjamin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1706-1790 |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Story of the whistle |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The whistle |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-05-12 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Charlene Taylor, Bob Taylor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The whistle by Benjamin Franklin is a brief moral essay, originally an extract from a personal letter, written in the late 18th century. It reflects on prudence and value, using a childhood anecdote to teach the danger of overpaying—whether in money, time, freedom, or character—for things that are not truly worth their cost.<br/><br/>The narrator recalls spending all his small change on a toy whistle as a child, only to be teased for paying far too much. The sting of that lesson becomes a lifelong maxim: “Don’t give too much for the whistle.” He then applies it to adult life, noting people who sacrifice integrity and peace for court favor, neglect their affairs for popularity, hoard wealth at the cost of comfort and friendship, chase sensual pleasures that ruin health and improvement, indulge in showy living that ends in debt and prison, and even enter marriages that bring misery. He concludes that much human unhappiness comes from misjudging the real value of things and paying dearly for hollow satisfactions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Benjamin Franklin describes a childhood incident of buying a whistle that taught him a lesson he never forgot. (This summary is from the Library of Congress.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Boston: Brad Stephens & Company, 1921 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Thriftiness -- Juvenile literature |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/whistle00fran/page/n3/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/whistle00fran/page/n3/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78663">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78663</a> |
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