Reminiscences of Isaac Marsden Author:John Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER, II. SOWING WILD OATS. William Marsden's business continued to prosper. He paid his accounts punctually. He gave his customers the full value for their money. He treated his workpeople fairly and kindly. He was a living exposition of the truth : ' The hand of the diligent maketh rich.' As the produce from his looms increased, it became necessary to find new markets. He opened accounts with wholesale houses in Lincolnshire, and it became necessary to attend the principal fairs and markets in that neighbourhood. There were no railways, and the carriers' carts were not always to be trusted to deliver his goods as promptly and speedily as he desired. So he purchased a valuable horse and light cart, that he might serve his customers personally. He hired a room in the yard of the ' Wellington Inn' at Doncaster, as a warehouse and dep6t for his Lincolnshire customers. He engaged a bedroom for his own separate uso when travelling in the neighbourhood. Thus he had virtually two homes -- a permanent one at Skelmanthorpe, and a temporary one at Doncaster. In these long journeys he took Isaac as his assistant. The lad took kindly to his new employment, and showed signs of becoming a good salesman. He booked orders, and kept accounts, and measured cloth, and made up parcels so cheerfully, that his father decided to remove him from the workshop and take him regularly to market. Isaac's new employment was exactly to his taste, and he did his best to please his father iu every respect. Before he was seventeen years of age, he had so far gainedhis father's confidence that he was trusted on some of these j...« less