30 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK oh. 



can hear the rattle of it now as it passed my 

 father's house on the way to Bromley station 

 to catch the 9.19 train. In front was seated 

 Lubbock pere, with a young Lubbock look- 

 ing very demure. Behind were other young 

 Lubbocks playing all sorts of tricks." But it 

 is to be doubted whether Lord Avebury ever 

 was one of those naughty young Lubbocks. 



He joined the Kent Artillery Militia, and 

 entered into all the duties that it entailed with 

 a characteristic thoroughness. Altogether it was 

 a life which did not lack variety in spite, or by 

 reason, of its industry. He tells us, in his 

 diary, the mode in which he planned out his 

 days — presumably it would be the time scheme 

 for a day on which he did not go up to the City 

 for business — and certainly its perusal is enough 

 to take the breath away of the ordinary idle 

 mortal who lives as leisurely as he may. 



It is on Christmas Day of 1852 that he makes 

 this entry : " Generally speaking, I spend my 

 day as follows : — Get up at | past six, dress, 

 say my prayers, read the Psalms and Chapters 

 and go to Papa with my mathematics, which 

 takes about ten minutes, before breakfast. From 

 8 1 till 9, read natural history ; 9 to \ past, 

 prayers ; \ past 9 to \ past 11, work with the 

 microscope ; \ past 11 to 1, read natural history ; 

 1 to i past, lunch. I generally go out for an 

 average of two hours in the afternoon, and do 

 \ an hour poetry and \ an hour political economy ; 

 tea, \ past 4 to 5 ; till 5 J more science ; | hour's 

 natural history ; 6 to 7 J, history ; 1\ to 8, 

 whist ; 8 to \ past, history ; 8 J to 9 J, mathe- 



