Between the wheat and corn pits a band of young fellows, some of them absolute boys, appeared. These were the settlement clerks. They carried long account books. It was their duty to get the trades of the day into a “ring”⁠—to trace the course of a lot of wheat which had changed hands perhaps a score of times during the trading⁠—and their calls of “Wheat sold to Teller and West,” “May wheat sold to Burbank & Co. ,” “May oats sold to Matthewson and Knight,” “Wheat sold to Gretry, Converse & Co. ,” began to echo from wall to wall of the almost deserted room.