After this I was so anxious to get along with my work that I did not so much as go out into the street for a week at a time.

I would not go out of the gate from the time I returned from church one Sunday till the next.

I loved to work as well as I did to eat.

I remember once, when at school, of chopping a whole load of wood, for a great lazy boy, for one penny, and I used to chop all the wood I could get from the families in the neighborhood, moonlight nights, for very small sums.

The winter after I made this large sale, I took about one dozen of the Pillar Scroll Top Clocks, and went to the town of Wethersfield to sell them.