CHAP. XVIII. | Edward at Home. 329 
star-fish, a new crustacean, a new ascidian. It must also 
‘have been a pleasure to him to be in correspondence with 
some of the most enlightened men of the time; to have 
received their congratulations upon his discoveries; and to 
have been rewarded with the titular honors which they had 
to bestow. 
But what did they think of him at home? A man may 
be a well-disposed man out-of-doors, yet altogether differ- 
ent in his domestic ¢ircle. _ Follow him home, and see what 
he is there. We have seen that Edward was a happy fa- 
ther and a happy husband. His children, as we have said, 
‘were brought up well and virtuously. There was no better- 
conducted family in Banff. When young, they assisted him 
in his labors among his fishes and crustaceans; and, when 
old, they were proud to help him in all ways. Is not this 
a great feature in a man’s character ? - 
What did his wife say of him? When reminded of his 
wanderings about at night, and asked what she thought of 
them, she replied, “ Weel, he took such an interest in beasts, 
that I didna compleen. Shoe-makers were then a very 
drucken set, but his beasts keepit him frae them. My 
man’s been a sober man all his life; and he never negleckit 
his wark. Sae I let him be.” Wise woman! 
Scotch people are very reticent. They rarely speak of 
love or affection. It is all “understood.” It is said that 
a Scotchman will never tell his wife that he loves her, until 
he is dying. But you can always tell, from the inside of 
a house, what the woman is, and how her husband regards 
her. In these respects, it may be said that Edward, though 
poor. and scrimp of means, has always enjoyed a happy 
‘home; and that is saying a great deal. 
It is not, however, the amount of love and respect with 
which aman is regarded at home that satisfies him, so 
much as the esteem with which he is regarded by his fel- 
low-men. When a man works gratuitously for science, and 
labors for the advancement of knowledge, he seems entitled 
