History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, And Life of Chauncey Jerome, Written By Himself
History of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, And Life of Chauncey Jerome, Written By Himself
Jerome Chauncey
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I had agreed to deliver them on a certain day and was to receive $144 in cash. I hired an old horse and lumber wagon of one of my neighbors, loaded the boxes and took an early start for Bristol I was thinking all the way there of the large sum that I was to receive, and was fearful that something might happen to disappoint me. I anived at Bristol early in the forenoon and hurried to the house of my customer, and told him I had brought the the clocks as agreed. He said nothing but went Digitized... by Google ,LIFE OF CHAUNCJSY JEROME. 43 into another room with his son. I thought sure- ly that something was wrong and that I should not get the wished-for money, but after a while the old gentleman came back and sat down by the table. "Here," he says, "is your money, and a heap of it, too." It did look to me like a large sum, and took us a long time to count it. This was more than forty years ago, and money was very scarce. I took it with a trembling hand, and securing it safely in my pocket, started im- mediately for home.
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