After getting the work well systematized, I told him if he could not make them at that price, I would make it up to him at the end of the year.

When the time was up, he told me that it was the best part of his job, and that he would make them the next year for four cents; it will be well understood that this was for the work alone, the stock being furnished.
When I got up this new time-keeper, as usual all the clock-makers were down on me again; Jerome was going to ruin the business, and this cheap thing would take the place of larger ones.

I told them there were ten thousand places where this cheap time-piece would be useful, and where a costly striking one would never be used.

There is a variety of places where they are as useful as if they struck the hour, and there are now more of the striking clocks wanted than there were when I got up this one day time-piece.

When I first began to make clocks, thousands would say that they could not afford to have a clock in their house and they must get along without, or with a watch.