Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1838-01-27
CHAPTER H.
THE cLooKMAKER.

| had heard Of Yankee clock pedlars,
tin pedlars, and bible pedlars, especially
of him who had sold Polyglot bibles
! (aNin English to the amount Of sixteen
thousand pounds. The house of every
substantial farmer had three substantial
ornaments. a wooden clock, tin reflect
Or, and Polyglot Bible. How is it that
ali American can sell his wares, at what
ever price he pleases, where a blue.nose
would fail to make sale at all. | will
enquire of the clockmaker the secret Of
his success. ~ u. 4" ".." o'.
What pity it is, Mr.. Slick Qor such
was his name,) what a pity it is, said l.,
that ou who are so successfulin teach
ing these people the value Of clocks, could
you not also teach them the value Of time.
! guess, said he, they have got that ring
to grow on their horns yet, which every
-four year old has in our country. We
reckon hours and minutes to, be dollars
and cents. They do nothing In these
parts but eat, drink, smoke, sleep, ride,
lounge at taverns, make speeches at tenn
perance meetings, and talk about House
Of Assembly, If a man don't hoe his
coin, if he don't get crop, he says it is
all owing TO the Bank |; and if he runs
into debt and is sued, why he says the
lawyers are curse to the country. They
are most idle set of folks, tell you.
But how is it, said ], that manage
TO sell such an immense number Of clocks
(Which certainly cannot be called neccs-
sary articles0 among people with
whom there seems TO be so great scar
city Of money! ,r "a ''1
Mr.. Slick paused, as if considering the
proprety Of answering the question, and
looking me full in the face, said, in con-
fidential tone, why, don't care if do
tell you, for the market is gluttcd, and |
shall quit this circuit. 1t is done by a
knowledge of soft sopder, and human
natur. But here is deacon Flint's, said
he, | have but one clock left, and ! guess
| will sell it to him.
AT the gate OF most respectable look.
ing farm house, stood Deacon Flint,
respectable looking old man, who had
understood the value of time better than
most ofhis ncighbors. if one might Judge
from the appearance Of every thing
about him. After the usual salutation,
an invitation to 'alight' was accepted by
Mr.. Slick, who said he wished to take
leave Of Mrs Flint before he left Colches-
ter.
We had hardly entered the house be-
fore the clockmaker pointed 10 the view
from the window, and, addressing me,
said, if | was to tell them in Connecti-
cut, there was such farm as this away
down east here in Nova Scotia, they
wouldn't believe newly there amt
such location in all New England.
The deacon has hundred acres ofdyke.
Seventy, said the Deacon, only seventy.
Well, seventy /; but then there is your
fine deep bottom, | could run a ram
rod into it. Interval, we call it, said the
deacon, who, though evidently pleased
at this eulogium, seemed to wish the ex-
pertinent Of the ramrod to be tried in
the right place. Well, interval, if you
please, .Qhough Professor Eleazer Cum
stalk, in his work on Ohio, calls them
bottoms,) is just as good as dyke; Then
there is that water power, worth three
or four thousand dollars, twice as good
as that Gov. Cass paid $4,000 dollars for.
| wonder, deacon, you don't put q card
ing mill ont; the same works would
carry turning lathe, a shingle machine,
a circular saw, grind bark, and . ------- - =,
Too old, said the deacon, too old for al!
those speculations. -Old. repeated the
Clockmaker, not you; why you are
worth, half dozen Of the young men
we see, nowadays !; you are young
enough to have--here he said something I
IN lower tone of voice, but which did,
not distinctly hear: but whatever it was. {
he deacon was pleased, he smiled and
,aid he did not think Of such things now.
But our beasts, dear me, your beasts
must be put in and have feed; saying
which, he went out 70 order them to be .
aiken to the, stable, = M. HI y
AS the old gentleman closed the door {
lfter him, tny friend Slick drew near to i
he, and said in an Under tone, thai iswhat1 .
call soft sawder."a An Engiishnian n
would pass that man as a Sheep passes a 6
Jog in pasture, without looking at him; !; 6
II, said he, if he wasmounted on a pret- $
v smart horse, [ guess he'd trot away, v