Onally a troop of wild asses, would pay us their noctur

Which, as a youth, he devoted himself, and, at the

time of his marriage in Hanover, was engaged as

hautboy player in

 

the band of the Guards. When,

 

in the course

 

of time, his

family grew up around him, each child received an education at the garrison school, to which they were sent between the ages of two and fourteen; and at home the father strove

to cultivate the musical talents of his sons, one of whom, William,

soon taught his teacher, while another, Jacob, was organist of the garrison church. Of her very early childhood one gets the impression that Caroline was a quiet, modest little maiden,

 

"deeply interested

in all the family concerns," content to be eclipsed by her more brilliant and less patient elder sister, and overlooked by her thoughtless brothers, toward one of whom, William, she already began to cherish that deep affection which she maintained throughout their lives. The lives of this brother and sister, indeed, in this respect, recall to mind those of Charles and Mary Lamb. When she was five years old the family life was disturbed by war, which took

away temporarily father and sons, and left the little girl at home, her mother's sole companion. Her recollections of

this time are very dismal, and may be read at length in the memoir by Mrs. John Herschel, to which we are indebted for much aid. When she was seventeen her father died, and the polished education which

 

he had hoped to give

her was supplanted by the

Done