CHAPTER V. 



Teaching and Writing. 



By the year 1845 (the last chapter brought us 

 to 1844) Tegetmeier had developed into a teacher, 

 lecturer, and writer. Already he had taught at 

 a boys' school, one kept by a Mr. Ogle, in London. 

 But he did not care much for teaching, although 

 he was fond of lecturing ; indeed, he lacked the 

 patience requisite in a schoolmaster, and always 

 hated routine and humdrum work of any sort. 

 Lecturing on his own choice of subject, however, 

 was another matter, and being, about this time, 

 appointed Lecturer on Domestic Economy at the 

 Home and Colonial Society's Training College, 

 in Gray's Inn Lane, he found scope for his talents 

 in this direction. It was here that he made the 

 acquaintance of the lady who became his wife — 

 Anne Edwards Stone, whom he married on 

 December 28th, 1845. Miss Stone came of a 

 Devonshire family, and was born in 1826, at 

 Frogmore, a picturesque village on the road 

 between Dartmouth and Kingsbridge. When the 

 young lecturer met her she was mistress of the 

 infant department of the Practising School 

 attached to the College, where she had been 

 trained. So capable a teacher was she that 

 her services had been retained by the Society, 



