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winter William, evidently to divert her mind from the 

 depressing home-sickness which weighed it down, gave 

 her InssonB In astronomy, or amused her \Mtli 1 reams 

 that in a few years became waking real i tie*. He was 

 numing a hard race for daily bread, for the thirt . 



ssons a week which he gave to mimic 

 pupil lie counted work enough for an ordinary 



man. without reference t uties as organist and 



nmim#T <l" n.nc-Tt^ I 1 . lit h- h.ul aU,, , nt, r- ,| t},,. 



arena of science in the race for lasting fam< 



ij* meant fur him increased work 

 in th. ;IM J stinlirs which were now abaci 



me and to. " It soon appeared/' his sister 



writes, " that he was not contented with knowing what 

 former observers had seen, for ho began to contr 

 telescope eighteen or twenty feet long (I believe after 



: hens' description)." Her help was continually 

 wanted in executing the various < ices required. 



Although the lenses were ordered from London, she 

 had to make the pasteboard tube they were fitted 

 and when the telescope was turned on Jupiter or 

 Saturn, she had to keep the paper tube straight till 

 .1 peep through it We need not bo 

 rised to read ' ; 1 tint that her music lessons 



were much hindered by astronomy, housekeeping, and 

 indifferent servants. She was realising an old truth. 

 Her brother and she imagined that service to two or 

 three or even to four masters was possible. They 

 were finding out that they could really serve only one. 

 And slowly but surely William Herschel and his sister 

 were drifting into the service of the one master, not 

 the fleeting fame of a singer but the lasting fame of 

 a discoverer. But those days of singing were never 



