CHAPTER XXI. 



THE FISHERIES LIMPETS PIKE THE ARK. 



IN due time the clouds mentioned in the last chapter 

 rolled by. New prospects of happiness opened for the 

 young men, and their parents were restored to their 

 wonted health and activity. In the following years 

 they made some pleasant return visits to scientific 

 friends : for example, to Canon Norman, at Burnmoor 

 Rectory, in the county of Durham ; and to Mr. and Mrs. 

 Wiltshire, at Lewisham. In 1883, they were attracted 

 to London by the Fishery Exhibition. It is interest- 

 ing to note the impression left on an observant and 

 intelligent mind by these vast assemblages of the 

 resources of the world and the products of human 

 skill. In answer to an inquiry with reference both to 

 the " Fisheries " and to the great world-fair of an earlier 

 date, Mr. Robertson, in June of this present year, 1890, 

 writes as follows : 



" Nothing notable occurred during our visit to the 

 Great Exhibition of 1851 (it was in company with my 

 partner, Mr. McDougall, not Mrs. Robertson), neither 

 had it any influence on our business. Any things in 

 the Exhibition that were connected with our trade 

 were only productions of the highest skill of nations, 



