It is simply a branch set up by a well-established bank whose original centre may perhaps be in another county.

It is every whit as respectable as the other, and as well conducted.

Its branch as yet lacks local antiquity, but that is the only difference.

The competition for the farmer's business between these branches, scattered all over the length and breadth of the country, must of necessity be close.

When the branch, or new Bank, came here, it was started in grand premises specially erected for it, in the most convenient situation that could be secured.
Till then the business of the old Bank had been carried on in a small and dingy basement.