CHAPTER IV.--PROGRESS OF CLOCK MAKING.--Revival of business; Bronze Looking Glass Clock favorite; clocks at the South; $115 for a clock; rapid increase of the business; new church at Bristol--Rev. David L. Parmelee; hard times of 1837; panic in business; no more clocks will be made; wooden clocks and wooden nutmegs; opposition to Yankee pedlars in the South; make clocks in Virginia and South Carolina; my trip to the South; discouragements; "I won't give up;" invent one day Brass clock; better times ahead; go further South; return home; produce the new clock; its success. CHAPTER V.--BRASS CLOCKS--CLOCKS IN ENGLAND.--The new clock a favorite; I carry on the business alone; good times; profits in 1841; wood clock makers half crazy; competition; prices reduced; can Yankee clocks be introduced into England; I send out a cargo; ridiculed by other clock makers; prejudice of English people against American manufacturers; how they were introduced; seized by custom house officers; a good joke; incidents; the Terry family. CHAPTER VI.--THE CAREER OF A FAST YOUNG MAN.--Incidents; Frank Merrills; a smart young man; I sell him clocks; his bogus operations; a sad history; great losses; human nature; my experience; incident of my boyhood; Samuel J. Mills, the Missionary; anecdotes. CHAPTER VII.--REMOVAL TO NEW HAVEN--FIRE--TROUBLE.--Make cages at New Haven; factories at Bristol destroyed by fire; great loss; sickness; heavy trouble; human nature; move whole business to New Haven; John Woodruff; great competition; clocks in New York; swindlers; law-suit; ill-feeling of other clock makers. CHAPTER VIII.--THE METHOD OF MANUFACTURING--THE JEROME MANUFACTURING COMPANY.--Benefit of manufacturing by system; a clock case for eight cents; a clock for seventy-five cents; thirty years ago and to-day; more human nature; how the Brass clock is made; cost of a clock; the facilities of the Jerome Manufacturing Company; a joint stock company; how it was managed; interesting statements; its failure. CHAPTER IX.--MEN NOW IN THE BUSINESS.--The New Haven Clock Co.: Hon. Jas. E. English, H.M. Welch, John Woodruff, Hiram Camp, Philip Pond, Charles L. Griswold, L.F. Root. Benedict & Burnham Company of Waterbury: Arad W. Welton. Seth Thomas & Co. Wm. L. Gilbert. E.N. Welch. Beach & Hubbell. Ireneus Atkins. CHAPTER X.--BARNUM'S CONNECTION IN THE CLOCK BUSINESS.--Barnum and the Jerome Manufacturing Co.; Terry & Barnum; interesting statements; causes of the failure; the results. CHAPTER XI.--EFFECTS OF THE FAILURE ON MYSELF.--My prospects; leave New Haven; move to Waterbury; a frightful accident; a practical story. CHAPTER XII.--ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE PARTNERSHIP.--More misplaced confidence; a dishonest man threatening to imprison me for fraud; every dollar gone; kindness of John Woodruff, etc. CHAPTER XIII.--THE WOOSTER PLACE CHURCH.--Reasons for building it, and how it was built; growth of different denominations, etc.