He hired three pedlars and went with them into Dutchess county New York, where they sold the clocks very fast.

The one-day O.G.brass clock was a new thing to them, first-rate for time, and they readily went off for fifteen and twenty dollars apiece.

I sold them to him for six dollars apiece, and it appeared, at this rate, that he could make a fortune in a few years.

His credit became established for any amount, and he soon began to want clocks about twice as fast as at first.

A man by the name of Bates transported them for him in a large two-horse wagon from my place to Washington Hollow, about twelve miles east of Poughkeepsie.