But he is a man who is satisfied with his lot--one of the rarest things on earth.

Perhaps it is by looking so much up to the heavens that he has been enabled to obtain his portion of contentment.
Next morning I found him busy at the station, making arrangements for the departure of the passenger train for Perth, and evidently upon the best of terms with everybody.

And here I leave John Robertson, the contented Coupar Angus astronomer.
Some years ago I received from my friend Mr.Nasmyth a letter of introduction to the late Mr.Cooke of York, while the latter was still living.

I did not present it at the time; but I now proposed to visit, on my return homewards, the establishment which he had founded at York for the manufacture of telescopes and other optical instruments.
Indeed, what a man may do for himself as well as for science, cannot be better illustrated than by the life of this remarkable man.
Mr.Nasmyth says that he had an account from Cooke himself of his small beginnings.

He was originally a shoemaker in a small country village.
Many a man has risen to distinction from a shoemaker's seat.