Cooke, of an energetic young astronomer at Bainbridge, in the mountain-district of Yorkshire, who had not only been able to make a telescope of his own, but was an excellent photographer.

He was not yet thirty years of age, but had encountered and conquered many difficulties.

This is a sort of character which is more often to be met with in remote country places than in thickly-peopled cities.

In the country a man is more of an individual; in a city he is only one of a multitude.

The country boy has to rely upon himself, and has to work in comparative solitude, while the city boy is distracted by excitements.