An odd volume of Gibbon gave an account of the Coliseum.

After the family were in bed, the brothers made a model of the Coliseum, and filled it with fighting gladiators.

As the boys grew up, they were sent to their usual outdoor work, following the plough and doing the usual agricultural labour; but still adhering to their modelling at leisure hours.

At Christmas-time, Lough was very much in demand.

Everybody wanted him to make models in pastry for Christmas pies,--the neighbouring farmers especially, "It was capital practice," he afterwards said.
At length Lough went from Newcastle to London, to push his way in the world of art.