They have probably been dead for years, that little boy is now an old man, and during his life has seen these great changes.

The clock business has grown to be one of the largest in the country, and almost every kind of American manufactures have improved in much the same ratio, and I cannot now believe that there will ever be in the same space of future time so many improvements and inventions as those of the past half century--one of the most important in the history of the world.

Everyday things with us now would have appeared to our forefathers as incredible.

But returning to my story--having got myself tolerably well posted about clocks at Waterbury, I hired myself to two men to go into the state of New Jersey, to make the old fashioned seven foot standing clock-case.

Messrs.