I was, however, gaining information and experience, and knew that better pay would follow in due course of time.

And without solicitation I was eventually offered an engagement for a term of years, at an increased and increasing salary, with three months' notice on either side.
I had only enjoyed the advance for a short time, when Mr.Thomas Toward, a shipbuilder on the Tyne, being in want of a manager, made application to the Messrs.

Stephenson for such a person.

They mentioned my name, and Mr.Toward came over to the Clyde to see me.

The result was, that I became engaged, and it was arranged that I should enter on my enlarged duties on the Tyne in the autumn of 1853.