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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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On
leaving
Fairbairn's
he
was
engaged
for
a
time
on
a
survey
for
the
proposed
Lukmanier
Railway,
in
Switzerland,
and
in
1856
he
entered
the
engineering
works
of
Mr.
Penn,
at
Greenwich,
as
a
draughtsman,
and
was
occupied
on
the
plans
of
a
vessel
designed
for
the
Crimean
war.
He
did
not
care
for
his
berth,
and
complained
of
its
late
hours,
his
rough
comrades,
with
whom
he
had
to
be
'as
little
like
himself
as
possible,'
and
his
humble
lodgings,
'across
a
dirty
green
and
through
some
half-built
streets
of
two-storied
houses....
Luckily,'
he
adds,
'I
am
fond
of
my
profession,
or
I
could
not
stand
this
life.'
There
was
probably
no
real
hardship
in
his
present
situation,
and
thousands
of
young
engineers
go
through
the
like
experience
at
the
outset
of
their
career
without
a
murmur,'
and
even
with
enjoyment;
but
Jenkin
had
been
his
mother's
pet
until
then,
with
a
girl's
delicate
training,
and
probably
felt
the
change
from
home
more
keenly
on
that
account.
At
night
he
read
engineering
and
mathematics,
or
Carlyle
and
the
poets,
and
cheered
his
drooping
spirits
with
frequent
trips
to
London
to
see
his
mother.
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