Excerpt from The Juvenile Artist: From the German of the Rev. C. G. Barth It happened that a distant relative of his, who had been appointed overlooker of the stone-quarries, near Andernach, offered to provide him with work; and Gregory, who from his youth, had been in clined to ramble, accepted this offer the more readily, because it afiorded him an opportunity of satisfying in some degree bis wandering propensity. Eliza beth, indeed, was by no means pleased with the idea of parting from her husband for so long a time, or that he should remove to such a distance from her but all her remonstrances proved ineffectual, and she was compelled to learn how to accommodate herself to her painful situation. It was fortunate for her.

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