After a while these two men contrived a plan to get up a company, go into another town, and manufacture the same kind of clock.
This company was formed about six months before I found it out, and much of their time was spent in making small tools and clock-parts to take with them.

This was done when they were at work for me on wages.

They induced as many of my men as they could to go with them, and took some of them into company.

When they had finished some clocks, they went round to my customers and under-sold me to get the trade.

This is the first chapter.