SIR WM. AND CAROLINE HERSCHEL. 87 



" ' " Ay, ay," cried old Snetzler, " tish is very goot, 

 very goot inteet. I will hef tish man, for he gives 

 mypiphes room for to shpeak." Having afterwards 

 asked Mr. Herschel by what means, in the begin- 

 ning of his performance, he produced so uncommon 

 an effect, he replied, " I told you fingers would not 

 do ! " and, producing two pieces of lead from his 

 waistcoat pocket, " One of these," said he, " I placed 

 011 the lowest key of the organ, and the other upon 

 the octave above ; thus, by accommodating the har- 

 mony, I produced the effect of four hands, instead 

 of two." ' " 



Herschel was the successful candidate among 

 the seven. He was now twenty-seven years old. 

 Only once do we learn of his going home to Ger- 

 many, and that in the year previous. Of this visit, 

 Caroline, now grown to fourteen, says, " Of the 

 joys and pleasures which all felt at this long- 

 wished-for meeting with my, let me say my dearest 

 brother, but a small portion could fall to my share ; 

 for with my constant attendance at church and 

 school, besides the time I was employed in doing 

 the drudgery of the scullery, it was but seldom I 

 could make one in the group when the family were 

 assembled together. 



" In the first week, some of the orchestra were in- 

 vited to a concert, at which some of my brother Will- 

 iam's compositions overtures, etc. and some of 

 my eldest brother, Jacob's, were performed, to the 

 great delight of my dear father, who hoped and 

 expected that they would be turned to some profit 



