Camping parties who put up telescopes are always supposed to be corporations with particular privileges, and curious lookers-on gather around, and try to enter what they consider a charmed circle.

We were remarkably free from specialists of this kind.

Camping on the south-west slope of the hill, we were hidden on the north and east, and another party which chose the brow of the hill was much more attractive to the crowd.

Our good serving-man was told to send away the few strollers who approached; even our friends from the city were asked to remove beyond the reach of voice.
"There is always some one to be found in every gathering who will not submit to law.

At the time of the total eclipse in Iowa, in 1869, there passed in and out among our telescopes and observers an unknown, closely veiled woman.