On calling the next day to see how they were getting along, and what the London merchant thought of them, they were surprised to find them both gone.

On asking what had become of them, they were told that two men came in and liked their looks and bought them.

The merchant said he did not think any one would ever buy them, but told them they might bring in four more; "I will see" he says, "if I can sell any _more_ of your Yankee clocks." They carried them in and calling the next day, found them all gone.

The merchant then told them to bring in a dozen.

These went off in a short time, and not long after, this same merchant bought two hundred at once, and other merchants began to think they could make some money on these Yankee clocks and the business began to improve very rapidly.