They all came to the shop next day, and each ordered just such a hammer.

When the contractor saw the tools, he ordered two for himself, asking that they be made a little better than those for his men.

"I can't make any better ones," said Maydole; "when I make a thing, I make it as well as I can, no matter whom it is for." The storekeeper soon ordered two dozen, a supply unheard of in his previous business career.

A New York dealer in tools came to the village to sell his wares, and bought all the storekeeper had, and left a standing order for all the blacksmith could make.

David might have grown very wealthy by making goods of the standard already attained; but throughout his long and successful life he never ceased to study still further to perfect his hammers in the minutest detail.