82 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



CHAPTER IV 



1859-1868 



Fleeming's Marriage His Married Life Professional Diffi- 

 culties Life at Claygate Illness of Mrs. F. Jeukin 

 and of Fleeming Appointment to the Chair at 

 Edinburgh. 



Fleeming's ON Saturday, Feb. 26, 1859, profiting by a holiday 

 of four days, Fleeming was married to Miss Austin 

 at Northiam : a place connected not only with his 

 own family but with that of his bride as well. By 

 Tuesday morning, he was at work again, fitting out 

 cableships at Birkenhead. Of the walk from his 

 lodgings to the works, I find a graphic sketch in 

 one of his letters : * Out over the railway bridge, 

 along a wide road raised to the level of a ground 

 floor above the land, which, not being built upon, 

 harbours puddles, ponds, pigs, and Irish hovels ; 

 so to the dock warehouses, four huge piles of build- 

 ing with no windows, surrounded by a wall about 

 twelve feet high ; in through the large gates, 

 round which hang twenty or thirty rusty Irish, 

 playing pitch and toss and waiting for employment ; 

 on along the railway, which came in at the same 



