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I thought that his representation of them, by scattering rice grains over his glue-covered black board, was apt and admirable; and so did Otto Struve. This chance meeting with these two admirable astronomers was one of the little bits of romance in my life. I returned to England shortly after. Among our visitors at Hammerfield was Lord Lyndhurst.
Then they might have left some record, instead of being desecrated by the harpies who wait at sales for such "job lots." Behold us, then, settled down at Hammerfield for life. We had plenty to do. My workshop was fully equipped. My hobbies were there, and I could work them to my heart's content.
The last time we visited his beautiful home at Hammerfield, he was busy polishing glasses for one of his new telescopes, the motive power being a windmill erected on one of his outhouses. Another word before we have done.
"I cannot help," adds Sir John, "fancying a bare possibility of some upward outbreak, followed by a retreat of some gaseous matter, or some dilated portion of the general atmosphere struggling upwards, and at the same time expanding outwards. I had the honour and happiness of receiving a visit from Sir John Herschel at my house at Hammerfield in the summer of 1864.
When I retired from business I was only forty-eight years old, which may be considered the prime of life. But I had plenty of hobbies, perhaps the chief of which was Astronomy. No sooner had I settled at Hammerfield than I had my telescopes brought out and mounted. The fine clear skies with which we were favoured, furnished me with abundant opportunities for the use of my instruments.
From my hereditary regard for hammers two broken hammer-shafts being the crest of our family for hundreds of years I named the place Hammerfield; and so it remains to this day. The improvements and additions to the house and the grounds were considerable. A greenhouse was built, 120 feet long by 32 feet wide. Roomy apartments were added to the house.
I had the happiness of receiving a visit from him at Hammerfield in the following year. He was still hale and active; and although I was comparatively a boy to him, he was as bright and clear-headed as he had been forty years before. In the course of the same year I accompanied my wife and my sister Charlotte on a visit to the Continent. It was their first sojourn in foreign parts.
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