CHAP. I.] Early Recollections. 5 



have seen my brother William confirmed in his new obb'i- 

 sten uniform." 



The next interesting event was the marriage of the 

 eldest daughter, who was living with a family at 

 Brunswick, and whom her sister says she had never seen 

 until she came home to be married. The bridegroom, 

 Mr. Griesbach, also a musician in the Guard, found no 

 favour in the eyes of his sister-in-law, and it is evi- 

 dently some satisfaction to her to have been told that 

 her father never cordially approved the match, 



"for . . . he knew him at least to be but a very middling 

 musician, and this alone would have been enough for my 

 father's disapprobation." 



Great preparations were made for 



" providing and furnishing a habitation (which happened to 

 be in the same house where my parents lived), which they 

 did in as handsome a manner as their straitened income 

 would allow, and to which my dear brothers took delight in 

 contributing to the best of their ability. I remember how 

 delighted I was when they were showing me the pretty 

 framed pictures with which my brother William had decorated 

 his sister's room, and heard my mother relate afterwards, 

 that the brothers had taken two months' pay in advance for 

 the wedding entertainment. . . Though for stocking a family 

 with household linen my mother was prepared at all times, 

 as perhaps never a more diligent spinner was heard of ; but 

 to keep pace with the wishes of my dear brothers, by whom 

 my sister was, as well as by her parents, exceedingly 

 beloved the whole family were kept for a time in an 



