We passed on through Elizabethtown and Morristown to Dutch Valley, where we stopped for the night.

We remained at this place a few days, looking about for a cabinet shop, or a suitable place to make the clock cases.

Not succeeding, we went a mile further north, to a place called Schooler's Mountain; here we found a building that suited us.

It was then the day before Christmas.

The people of that region, we found, kept that day more strictly than the Sabbath, and as we were not ready to go to work, we passed Christmas day indoors feeling very lonely indeed.