All of the first cargo consisted of the O.G.one day brass clocks.

As soon as it was known by the neighboring clock-makers, they laughed at me, and ridiculed the idea of sending clocks to England where labor was so cheap.

They said that they never would interfere with Jerome in that visionary project, but no sooner had I got them well introduced, after spending thousands of dollars to effect it, than they had all forgotten what they said about my folly, and one after another sent over the same goods to compete with me and run down the price.

As I have said before, wood clocks could never have been exported to Europe from this country, for many reasons.

They would have been laughed at, and looked upon with suspicion as coming from the wooden nutmeg country, and classed as the same.